
“Winner of Cinequest and Vermont Film Festivals and the American Cinema Editors Eddy Award for Best Edited Documentary.”

Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late father's history, discovers many things that she had not known, among them that her father had spent time in Manzanar, the internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II, that he had had a family prior to hers, and that somewhere out there was a sister she had never known existed.
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Documentary film version of the stage show in which actress Cynthia Gates Fujikawa explores the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who had a long career in films and television, most often as a stereotyped Asian. The daughter, in the course of searching out her late...
Old Man River (1999) was directed by Beth Schachter. The film is a Documentary production with a runtime of 1h 14m, rated 10.0/10.
Old Man River runs 1h 14m (74 minutes total). Audience rating: 10.0/10 from 1 votes. Genre: Documentary.
Old Man River is rated 10.0/10 by 1 viewers — exceptional and highly recommended. A good pick for Documentary fans.