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Program 41
Directors Guild of America • 5:00 p.m. • Theatre 2
 
SLEEPING TIGERS: THE ASAHI BASEBALL STORY
(Canada, 2002) Dir./Scr.: Jari Osborne
In pre-WWII Vancouver the Asahi baseball team was unbeatable, outplaying the taller Caucasian teams and winning the prestigious Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. When Pearl Harbor was bombed, the Canadian government declared war against Japan and sent every person of Japanese descent, whether born in Canada or not, to internment camps. Faced with hardship and isolation, the former Asahi members survived by playing baseball.
Video, 49 min., color and black & white, Documentary
 

Preceded by
STAND UP FOR JUSTICE
(USA, 2004) Dir./Scr.: John Esaki
(Repeat; see Program 15 for info)
35mm, 30 min., color and black & white, Narrative
 

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