But they are afraid of how audiences may react. There are very few examples of Japanese Americans who are people helping the United States. But added to that there was a sense of shame that that the land of our ancestors was attacking our country. Within two months of the attack, the US Army discharged Japanese Americans from all but two regiments in the Hawaiian National Guard. He volunteered at age 19 when he was interned with his family in Topaz, Utah, and served as a frontline interrogator.
War is nothing romantic.
It's always terrible. Tanabe - who now lives outside Oakland, California remembers the racism he and his family faced. But even so, he plans to see the movie. Tateishi was able to review a draft of the script with producer Bruckheimer, and saw the movie last week at a private screening. The sequence of Pearl Harbour is right in the middle of the movie, and it's very graphic and spectacular.