shes been outspoken about human rights across race.

the 96-year-old newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League.Individuals or organizations interested in serving as a co-sponsor for this benefit screening are asked to reach out via email to alexluu@yahoo.

a city girl from Yokohama who leaves Japan circa 1918 for Hawaii as a picture bride.The Greater Los Angeles JACL and The Repertory Screenings Forum are co-sponsoring a special one-time fundraising screening of the award-winning 1995 movie Picture Bride on Sunday.According to the Miramax website.

it won the Audience Award for narrative dramatic feature film at the Sundance Film Festival.The screening will include a short tribute to Kayo Hatta and the career she should have had as a visionary filmmaker had she not died in 2005.

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Picture Bride also features one of the last movie appearances by legendary actor Toshiro Mifune.I will be completing my term of nearly three years — or two years.

Many of them were deeply moving.I watched documentaries such as Defining Courage and Baseball Behind Barbed Wire.

and express my heartfelt gratitude to all before my departure.Numerous instances and moments come to my mind.