This film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri’s family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri’s family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. This film raises questions about collective history – questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.

History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige

Biography in political and social context of Yuri Kochiyama, a Japanese-American woman and humanitarian civil rights activist who first became aware of injustice in the United States during her time in a Japanese-American interment camp during World War II.

Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice

After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better life. Hooking up with activist friends along the way, she comes to an important realization about her past: that her parents were incarcerated in an internment camp during World War II. She detours her road trip, ditches her boyfriend and drives off into the Arizona desert in a determined search for the truth that will set her free.

Strawberry Fields

LORDVILLE extends director Rea Tajiri's on-going examination of ideas of history, place and race, and continues and propels larger conversations within the documentary field. A work spanning categorizations; it is a landscape film, an experimental documentary, an ethnography of place, a personal meditation.