received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities last December.

or Kazuo Haras Goodbye CP — which chronicled the lives of people with cerebral palsy — forced audiences to confront political and social realities directly.because theyve grown up saturated in them.

Whole seasons are at your fingertips.Postwar documentaries by directors like Tsuchimoto.and Suncoast selling two-episode DBZ VHS tapes for $20 apiece.

by the early 2000s Japanese film had slipped into the shadows.he even founded a Japanese film club to help feed this otaku obsession.

are already experts at reading images.

engaging with Japanese cinema is more than passive entertainment — its a practice of struggle.Hip-hop artists rapping analogies between police abuse and camp guard beatings of JAs in concentration camps exposed shared histories.

Little Tokyo became a ghost town.Dave began to score documentaries at the Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum when Bob Nakamura.

How can I use music to contribute?Drumming is a part of every ethnic culture.After the Rodney King police beating and the L.