Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 12/23/1990(USA)
Release Date: 06/06/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DDS2.0/DD1/DD2
Run Time: 133 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II,
Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (
Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City. Jack finds himself on the wrong side of the law after he gets involved in an ill-advised bombing of a scab shop, and he flees to Los Angeles, where Hiroshi Kawamura (
Sab Shimono) gives him a job as a projectionist in L.A.'s Little Tokyo. Jack soon meets Hiroshi's beautiful daughter Lily (
Tamlyn Tomita) and it's love at first sight. Jack and Lily decide to get married, but Hiroshi opposes the match and California law prevents mixed-race couples from obtaining a marriage license. Jack and Lily move to Seattle, where they are wed and soon have a daughter. Jack, however, begins working with the union again, which puts a strain on their marriage; Lily takes their child and returns to Los Angeles. But before long the United States enters World War II, and the Kawamura family is sent (along with all other Americans of Japanese descent living in California) to an internment camp, as it is believed they will become traitors against America if left to their own devices. Jack, ironically, is drafted into the Army and soon goes AWOL to return to California, where he tries to find his wife in the camps.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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A Romantic War Melodrama.
Thie is one of the few American movies that tells about the tragic story of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Dennis Quaid plays a union organizer, who later meets and marries a beautiful Japanese woman (Tamlyn Tomika), but when the United States enters World War II, he must take whatever steps necessary to keep his family from sent to an internment camp. Also starring Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Ronald Yamamoto, Caroline Junko King, Stan Egi, Brady Tsurutani, Colm Meaney, Akemi Nishino, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Naomi Nakano.
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