Two Homelands [二つの祖国]

Release Year
2019
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama
History
Romance
War
Directed By
Hideta Takahata
Two Homelands

In the Pearl Harbor era, a second-generation Japanese-American grapples with his identity amid the turmoil of World War II. Born in Los Angeles and educated in Japan, he returns to the USA and works at a Japanese newspaper. However, the outbreak of war and a racist executive order forcefully deport his entire family to a detention center in California. Torn between his American upbringing and Japanese heritage, he decides to serve as a translator and goes to war.

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