Posted at 1:23 a.m., Wednesday, April 25, 2007
HIFF to show internment camp movie tonight
Advertiser Staff
The Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase hosts a sneak preview of "American Pastime," a drama set against the background of 1940s U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans, 8:45 tonight at Regal Cinemas at Dole Cannery.The film tells the story of interned Japanese American parents and their two Americanized sons, one of whom begins a romance with a camp guard's daughter. Through baseball, surrounding townspeople and the detainees uncover their similarities.
Honolulu actor Seth Sakai, 73, has a role in the film, and will appear at Dole Canneries for a question-and-answer session before the movie starts.
Tickets, $9-$10, available at HIFF's Dole Cannery Stadium box office, online at www.hiff.org and by phone at 550-8457.
The film will be released May 22 on DVD from Warner Home Video.
