Center for Asian American Media

One of the first full-length films made by and about Asian Pacific Americans, HITO HATA captures the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans since the early 1900s. Veteran actor/ director Mako plays a feisty Issei, one of the elderly single laborers of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo, who worked on the transcontinental railroad and later in life as a community leader. This classic also features Pat Morita and Yuki Shimoda.

“Watching HITO HATA is a lot like looking closely into a mirror. After watching it, Japanese Americans may see things they hadn’t realized about themselves before.”

- Los Angeles Japanese Daily News

“HITO HATA…raises the banner itself.”

- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

Awards
Gold Award, Houston International Film Festival
Second Place, Cultures in Focus

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