Outreach
Video Lending Library
Japan
- Program Title: Days of Waiting
- EASC Code: JD-14
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: United States, Japan
- Language: English
- Subtitles:
- Subject: History
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director: Steven Okazaki
- Producer:
- Release Date: 1990
- Running Time: 29 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: Days of Waiting is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 100,000 Japanese Americans in 1942 . . . She refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming . . . her sketches and watercolors form[ing] a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health and dignity and hope alive."
-- Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle - Data Entry Date: 12/8/06
