HITO HATA: Raise the Banner [In-Person]

HITO HATA: Raise the Banner [In-Person]

Directed By Robert A. Nakamura, Duane Kubo

USA, Japan | Narrative | 93 min

East Coast Premiere

[After the screening, there will be a live in-person Q&A with the filmmakers. This screening is part of the series, “Retrospectives in Dialogue“.]

A Visual Communications (VC) landmark project directed by Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo, HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980) is the first feature-length film made by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Capturing the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the 20th century, the film centers on Oda, a feisty issei (first generation Japanese American) and elderly single laborer living in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. Through a series of flashbacks, the story traces Oda’s life as a laborer on the transcontinental railroad and his struggle to save the home of Little Tokyo’s residents when the community is threatened with redevelopment.

This 4k Restoration is funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation, with additional support from funders of the VC Archives (Aratani Foundation, California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, California Humanities, Haynes Foundation, and Mellon Foundation).

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In-Person

    • Date and Time

      Sunday, July 30 2023

      2:00 PM to 3:53 PM

    • Venue

      Quad Cinema

      34 W 13th Street
      New York, NY 10011

    Film Details

    1. Violence

    2. English, Japanese

    3. English

    4. East Coast Premiere

    5. 2022

    6. 93 minutes

    7. Drama

    8. Narrative

    9. USA, Japan

      10. Robert A. Nakamura

        Duane Kubo


      Robert A. Nakamura is a filmmaker and teacher, sometimes referred to as ""the Godfather of Asian American media."" In 1970, he co-founded Visual Communications (VC), the premier community-based Asian Pacific American media arts center in the United States. After working almost three decades at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) teaching Asian American filmmaking, Nakamura founded the UCLA Center for EthnoCommunications 1996, serving as Director of the program until 2012. After studying film at UCLA, Duane Kubo co-directed the VC production, HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980) alongside Robert Nakamura. Kubo taught at De Anza College in Cupertino, California and later became dean of the Intercultural/International Studies Division, teaching Asian American Studies and overseeing the Ethnic Studies and International Studies programs.

      11. Steven J. Tatsukawa

      12. Robert A. Nakamura

        John Esaki

      13. Mako

        Pat Morita

        Saachiko

        Yuki Shimoda

        Hiroshi Kashiwagi

      14. Dale Iwamasa (Director of Photography)

        Dan Kuramoto (Music)

        Alan Kondo (Film Editing)

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