KINTSUKUROI

n.

1. the Japanese art of repairing pottery using gold

2. the strength and beauty found in something that has been broken

Like every immigrant family, the Itos came to the United States to build a better life. After years of struggle and sacrifice, the dream that was America seemed within their grasp.

Then the world changed forever …

With a stroke of his pen, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and effectively destroyed the lives of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of WWII.

KINTSUKUROI follows members of the Ito family from their pre-war life in San Francisco’s Japantown to the concentration camps of the American West to the battlefields of Europe as they struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. The film features Ryan Takemiya, Kealani Kitaura, Ken Takeda, Ron Munekawa, Kiyomi Koide and Chizu Omori.

SCHEDULE

Doors open - noon

Discussion on the Wakasa Memorial at Topaz, Utah - 1pm

Nancy Ukai and Chizu Omori of the Wakasa Memorial Committee will discuss the murder of James Wakasa at the Topaz, Utah incarceration site, the stone memorial created by prisoners that was recently uncovered and the status of the memorial.

Break - 2pm

KINTSUKUROI screening begins - 2:10pm

Q&A follows the film - 4:25pm

Meet and greet in the theater lobby - 5pm

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