Basic rights are under attack.

Studying Japanese was never really an option until I went to community college in Seattle.Engaging with serious Japanese creators.

many students were anime-curious.That discovery coincided with a Hokusai wave of interest in Japanese pop culture in the early 2000s.In samurai or vigilante films.

While many Americans imagine samurai as historical truth.Students know more than I do about the latest shows.

a professor of Japanese Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA.

and the Desire for JusticeAnother focus of his teaching is samurai cinema.As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend.

Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration.with Robert always by Tads side.

Featured programs include the L.a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story.