is getting your fair share a blessing or a curse? Is it worth losing the relationship with your loved ones?AddendumJust wanted to acknowledge two emails for my last two columns.

I realize that the movie may have subconsciously influenced my first teenage crush on a Japanese boy that could have possibly been different if the film had another ending.Karen Ishizuka (right) and her husband Bob Nakamura with members of the Little Tokyo Historical Society (from left).

I wasnt able to visit him on set but I was fortunate that he invited me to a few of his award shows.which was shot on location in Tokyo several years before in 1955.Ishizukas grandparents were active members before and after the war.

Seeing him brought back many memories of when we would go to dinner or he would come over to our house.Samuel Fullers daughter; Keith Shigeta.

Steve Nagano and Patty Nagano.

at the screening of The Crimson Kimono at the Academy Museum on July 21.Yoshihiro Uchida was a force to be reckoned with in the Japanese American community and on the judo mat.

he studied chemical engineering at San José State and joined the wrestling team.His kindness and determination as well as his grace and generosity made him one of the leaders of his generation.

organizing the first national collegiate judo championships in 1962.After graduating in 1947 he started his own business in San José and continued to develop the judo program.