Center for Asian American Media

I Told You So

I Told You So

Documentary | 1974 | 18 mins | VHS

Director

Alan Kondo

Ethnicity

Japanese

Subjects

Activism, Art & Performance, Japanese American/Canadian Internment

This intimate documentary about Japanese American poet Lawson Inada weaves downtown scenes of Fresno, California, with his poetic lyricism. Using a Nisei barbershop, urban graffiti and local bars as background, Inada’s piece, “Nightsong in Asian America,” expresses his search for identity and his active resistance to World War II internment.

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