Strawberry Fields is a 1997 independent feature film directed by Japanese American filmmaker Rea Tajiri and co-written by Tajiri and Japanese Canadian author Kerri Sakamoto.
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Directed by | Rea Tajiri |
Produced by | Rea Tajiri Jason Kliot Hank Blumenthal |
Written by | Rea Tajiri Kerri Sakamoto |
Starring | Suzy Nakamura James Sie |
Music by | Bundy Brown Sooyoung Park |
Cinematography | Zachary Winestine |
Edited by | Steve Hamilton James Lyons |
Distributed by | Vanguard Cinema (DVD) |
Release date | 1997 |
Running time | 90 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Screenplay
The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew, standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans. Prompted by visits from the ghost of Terri, her dead baby sister, Irene journeys with her boyfriend, Luke, on a road trip to Arizona, where the Poston War Relocation Center once stood, and where the photo of her grandfather was taken.
- Suzy Nakamura as Irene Kawai
- James Sie as Luke
- Heather Yoshimura as Terri
- Marilyn Tokuda as Alice
- Reiko Mathieu as Aura
- Chris Tashima as Mark
- Takayo Fischer as Takayo
- Peter Yoshida as Bill