Day of Independence
A desert. A baseball diamond. A friendship. America, 1943.
27 mins
Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.
Keiko Kawashima
Mother
Akeime Mitterlehner
Production Design
Tim Toyama
Executive Producer
Lisa Onodera
Producer
Naomi Yoshida Rodriguez
Costume Design
Lu Cien Hioe
Line Producer
Scott Nagatani
Music
Tim Toyama
Co-Writer
Stacy Toyama
Director of Photography