Two Homelands (2019)
Moving Tale of Second Generation Japanese Americans
Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Hideta Takahata
Kenji Amo Shun Oguri
Charlie Tamiya Tsuyoshi Muro
Amoh Isamu Mackenyu
Kengo Kora
Nagiko Mikako Tabe
Riisa Naka
Yutaka Matsushige
Yumi Asou
Season 1
2019
2 episodes
Season 1 of Two Homelands premiered on March 23, 2019
The Pacific War shatters one Japanese American man's life: while his family are incarcerated in Manzanar, he faces his own brother on the battlefield.
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Keywords
- rape
- world war ii
- tragedy
- racism
- family
- japanese american
- discrimination
- internment camp
- war journalism
- war