Steven Okazaki

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Steven Okazaki

Harold Agnew, Shuntaro Hida

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never spoken publicly before - and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath.

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street

Steven Okazaki

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of three years. The film depicts drug-related crimes and diseases: prostitution, male prostitution, AIDS, and lethal overdoses.

Hunting Tigers

Steven Okazaki

Kenzaburô Oe, Jun Togawa

October, 1987. American filmmaker Steven Okazaki is making a documentary about laureated japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, but all goes wrong when he finds out that due to "mistranslated facts" the subject of his film has only one day to spare before leaving the country. During their brief interview, Mr. Kenzaburo affirms that the new generation of japanese artists are "spoiled, un-original and too influenced by Western culture." so, having a japanese film crew rented for four more days, Steven decides to roam the streets of Tokyo filming the lives of the japanese emergent underdog artists, trying to make some sense of Mr. Oe's statement.

Days of Waiting

Steven Okazaki

Dorothy Stroup

The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II. The wife of a Japanese American, Ishigo refused to be separated from her husband and was interned along with him. Based on the personal papers of Estelle Ishigo and her novel Lone Heart Mountain.

The Conscience of Nhem En

Steven Okazaki

An intimate look at Cambodia 30 years after the end of the Khmer Rouge's reign.

Alone Together: Young Adults Living With HIV

Steven Okazaki

Young adults talk about their HIV-positive condition.

Rehab

Steven Okazaki

Camp Recovery, located in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, Cal., features a mix of new and long-term addicts, most of whom stay for 30 days (the maximum allowed by most insurance companies). Rehab chronicles their experiences in the center and follows them out into the less-supervised, far more dangerous, "real" world, riding the emotional tidal waves that accompany incremental progress and devastating relapses. The film offers a rare insider's look at the ups and downs of each addict's journey to stay clean.

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Steven Okazaki

Toshirō Mifune, Киану Ривз

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Heroin: Cape Cod, USA

Steven Okazaki

An unvarnished look at the heroin epidemic sweeping America's small towns and communities, focusing on on eight young addicts in idyllic Cape Cod, Mass.

The Mushroom Club

Steven Okazaki

A filmmaker's journey to Hiroshima, sixty years after the bomb.

Unfinished Business

Steven Okazaki

Amy Hill, Gordon Hirabayashi

1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.

Living on Tokyo Time

Steven Okazaki

Minako Ohashi, Ken Nakagawa

When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.

American Sons

Steven Okazaki

Yuji Okumoto, Kelvin Han Yee

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring four of the country's best Asian American actors, AMERICAN SONS is a challenging exploration of how prejudice, bigotry and violence twists and demeans individual lives.