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.

Chris Tashima

Co-Writer

Akeime Mitterlehner

Production Design

Tim Toyama

Executive Producer

Pablo Miralles

Co-Producer

Lisa Onodera

Producer

Lu Cien Hioe

Line Producer

Tim Toyama

Co-Writer

Stacy Toyama

Director of Photography

Chris Donahue

Executive Producer

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