Multimedia Collection
Rabbit in the Moon
VHS
85 minutes
D769.8 .A6 R331 1999
Rabbit in the Moon is a documentary/memoir about the lingering effects of the World War II internment of the Japanese American community. It is also the story of two sisters, both former internees, filmmaker Emiko Omori and writer Chizuko Omori, who revisited the absence of this vital history in their lives while searching for the memory of their mother. Visually stunning and emotionally compelling, Rabbit in the Moon examines issue that ultimately created deep rifts within the community, reveals the racist subtext of the loyalty questionnaire and exposes the absurdity of the military draft within the camps. These testimonies are linked by the filmmakers own experiences in the camps and placed in a larger historical context by the voice of the director, Emiko Omori.
Omori reminds us how intensely the U.S. government's actions belied the very principles it was founded on, and how the fragmenting of the Japanese American community still hasn't had time to fully heal.- Nicole Campos, LA Weekly
As a professional historian who has been researching and writing about the Japanese Evacuation experience during WWII for the past 25 years, I can attest that Ms. Omori's stunning film is historically accurate both in terms of its overarching interpretations and its factual claims....It is an aesthetically beautiful film compounded of hard truths about an ugly reality...a film that deserves to be not only widely viewed, but also vigorously and rigorously debated.- Arthur A. Hansen, Professor of History, Cal State Fullerton
I can say without qualification that this film may well be the most important film to come out of the Japanese American Internment experience...- Mitsuye Yamada, Assoc. Prof. of Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
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