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| Website | americanpastimemovie.com | | Directors | Screenplay
Desmond Nakano
Director
Desmond Nakano
| | Festivals | March 18-25
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
WINNER – AUDIENCE AWARD
April 8
12th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase Screening and Q&A1
May 5
VC Filmfest 2007 - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theater
October 11-18
San Diego Asian American Film Festival
American Pastime is a Warner Home Video presentation of a T & C Pictures, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Rosy Bushes production of a Desmond Nakano film.
Other Screenings:
March 26
Salt Lake City – Megaplex Downtown
Screening for Japanese American Citizens League
April 3
Salt Lake City - Megaplex
Gala Premiere and local ‘Media Day’
May 8
Washington, DC
Smithsonian & National Japanese American Memorial Foundation
May 11
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame – Cooperstown, NY
Screening in conjunction with event to present MLB’s new Cultural Diversity Module aimed at educators
May 17th
Los Angeles Gala Premiere Special Event – Mann Theaters
May 18th
Los Angeles Japanese American National Museum (JANM)
July
San Francisco Japanese American Museum
Screening to coincide with Baseball All-Star game on 7/10
Gary Cole in the Role of Billy Burrell. Gary Cole is well known for numerous award winning roles, including the televsion series “FATAL VISION”, “MIDNIGHT CALLER”, ”AMERICAN GOTHIC”, ”BABYLON 5”, ”CRUSADE”, “WANTED”, ”SON OF THE MORNING STAR” and LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT As well as being Vice President Bob Russell on the international Television hit “THE WEST WING”. Gary has also starred in many major Hollywood fi lms including “IN THE LINE OF FIRE” with Clint Eastwood, “I SPY” with Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, the cult comedy hit “OFFICE SPACE”, “DODGEBALL” starring with Ben Stiller, “ONE HOUR PHOTO” with Robin Williams, “THE RING 2” and Sony Picture..s major summer release “TALLADEGA NIGHTS THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY” with Will Ferrell. |
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American Pastime's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
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| Films: 1 |
Total Plays: 1699 |
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Run Time:
104
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Plays:
1699
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AMERICAN PASTIME (2007)
American Pastime takes viewers into the lives of the Japanese American community at a time when their very foundations were shaken to the core. Adding elements of humor, romance and action, the film is based on the true events of World War II’s U.S. home front, where 120,000 Japanese Americans, though citizens of this country, were uprooted from their homes and placed in remote internment camps because of a perceived security threat. The film’s story centers around one family in Utah’s Topaz camp where the interned community ironically uses baseball, for decades a part of the Japanese American fabric, as a way to rise above their daily hardships and adversity.
Plot Summary:
Kaz Nomura (Masatoshi Nakamura) and his wife Emi (Judy Ongg) stoically struggle to maintain a normal life after being forcibly relocated to an internment camp in the remote town of Abraham, Utah. Although allowed to run errands in the town – under supervision – the camp residents are imprisoned behind wire fences and overseen by armed guards.
The Nomura sons Lane (Leonardo Nam) and Lyle (Aaron Yoo) are totally Americanized and they rebel loudly against their unfair captivity. The older brother Lane, determined to prove his loyalty, enlists in the U.S. Army’s celebrated 442nd Regimental Combat Team (the unit’s slogan is “Go For Broke,” symbolizing the men’s at-all-cost fight for freedom). His brother Lyle is a musician and a baseball superstar who’s embittered when his chance to attend college on a full baseball scholarship is cut short by the War. Lyle soon meets Katie Burrell (Sarah Drew), daughter of camp guard Billy Burrell (Gary Cole), and the two teenagers begin a romance. Katie’s brother is overseas fighting in the Pacific, which brings Lyle and Katie's relationship onto a collision course with her dad’s worst wartime fears. When the romance between Katie and Lyle is discovered, the Burrells and the Nomuras find themselves at odds with each other, even though they’re on the same side of the war.
Billy Burrell, a man whose dream is one more shot at the big leagues, is a star of the minor league baseball club, the Abraham Bees. If not for the war, baseball is a passion he could have shared with Kaz and his sons, who also play for the love of the game.
To show the town of Abraham their fighting spirit, the camp residents propose a baseball game between Billy's team and the Topaz camp's squad and both sides square off in a contest. An unusual wager is proposed, the stakes of which are a large sum of money for the locals; dignity and honor for the Japanese Americans. Lane, having made a devastating wartime sacrifice, comes back from the front to cheer the players to “Go For Broke.” Alongside him, the internment camp families unite behind their team, determined to show that they, too, are patriotic Americans. And through the all-American pastime of baseball, the town of Abraham and the Topaz detainees discover that they’re really not that different after all – they’re both Americans who share the same values, even when a war almost tears them apart.
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T & C Pictures
ShadowCatcher Entertainment
Rosy Bushes Productions
A Desmond Nakano Film
Cast
Gary Cole
Leonardo Nam
Aaron Yoo
Masatoshi Nakamura
Judy Ongg
Sarah Drew
Casting
Vickie Thomas-Los Angeles
Music Supervisor
Allan Brewer
Composer
Joseph Conlan
Production Designer
Christopher Demuri
Editor
Mark Yoshikawa
Director of Photography
Matthew Williams
Executive Producer
Arata Matsushima
Executive Producer
David Skinner
Produced by
Tom Gorai
Terry Spazek
Barry Rosenbush
Story by
Desmond Nakano
Screenplay by
Desmond Nakano & Tony Kayden
Written by
Desmond Nakano &
Tony Kayden
Directed by
Desmond Nakano
©2007 T&C Ventures Ltd. All rights reserved.
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