The uprooting and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the aftereffects are the subject of two films to be shown Tuesday as part of the Asian Film Series from Tacoma’s Asia Pacific Cultural Center.
“Take Me Home,” which views the dislocations from a child’s perspective, and “Resettlement to Redress,” a documentary featuring interviews with prominent Japanese Americans, will be shown at 6 p.m. in Carwein Hall in the Keystone Building on the University of Washington Tacoma campus.
The free film series runs on Tuesdays through Nov. 13.
“The Price You Pay” and “Voices of Challenge: Hmong Women in Transition” will be shown Oct. 30. Both focus on the difficulties faced by Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians who fled their nations after the Vietnam War.
On Nov. 6, “Sa-I-Gu: From Korean Women’s Perspectives” and “Xch-l” are on the program. The first film examines racial and class conflicts plaguing female Korean American shopkeepers in Los Angeles, and the second follows a Vietnamese American woman as she tours Ho Chi Minh City in a pedicab and reflects on her heritage.
The series wraps up on Nov. 13 with “Filipino Americans: Discovering Their Past for the Future” and “My Name Is Belle,” a fictionalized memoir of a 7-year-old Taiwanese girl newly arrived in the United States.
Soren Andersen, The News Tribune