Come See the Paradise
by Alan Parker
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Actor: Dennis Quaid, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi, Tamlyn TomitaDirector: Alan Parker
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 133 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Come See the Paradise
Movie Review: Difficult to believe, but true
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second time I see this film, so I was surprised by the dramatic reality of the Concentration Camps for Japanese in the USA the first time I saw it, not now. This time I was really captivated by how the whole human story and love story hurt, really hurt, and by a wonderful Dennis Quaid who I think played here maybe his best role as an actor.
Summary of Come See the Paradise
During the late 1930s with the Second World War feverishly brewing Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) a struggling union activist working as a film projectionist in a San Francisco movie theater falls in love with beautiful Japanese-American Lily Kawamura (Tamlyn Tomita). Against Lily's father's wishes (and contrary to the California law of the time forbidding intermarriage) Jack and Lily wed and have a child. Their marriage flourishes until the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and America enters World War II. Japanese Americans--including Lily and her family--are herded into concentration camps by the thousands. Jack is drafted into the army but is prepared to risk life and limb to see his family again.The predominantly Japanese American cast paints a stunning collective portrait of the toll taken by the rash and racist internment of Japanese-Americans during the war. Director Alan Parker as he did in MISSISSIPPI BURNING uses his acute convincing storytelling abilities to take a brave look at a dark episode in America's past.System Requirements:Running Time: 135 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 024543244608 Manufacturer No: 2234460Drama DVD Video
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