The Manzanar Fishing Club

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The Manzanar Fishing Club

2012

1h 14m

Documentary

Adventure

War

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Japanese-American internment prisoners defy the guards of their camps to fish for trout in the Eastern Sierra.

Lou Lumenick

New York Post

09/14/2012

2/4

"The Manzanar Fishing Club'' has enough interesting footage for perhaps a 15-minute segment of a TV news magazine.

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David DeWitt

New York Times

09/13/2012

2.5/5

All this is welcome; all this is too little. The Zen appeal of a river running through it is at best postcard-pretty, and not much deeper.

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

09/11/2012

The historical road less traveled-shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain-is beguiling enough.

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Marshall Fine

Hollywood & Fine

09/13/2012

Some of the stories of ingenuity - whether in creating fishing equipment out of scavenged materials or hiding their activities from authorities - are amusing or moving.

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Cory Shiozaki

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Scott Sutton

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Bonnie Perkinson

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Philip Friedman

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Richard Imamura

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Richard Imamura

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Synopsis

Japanese-American internment prisoners defy the guards of their camps to fish for trout in the Eastern Sierra.

Director: Cory Shiozaki
Producer: Richard Imamura, Cory Shiozaki, Lester Chung, John Gengl
Screenwriter: Richard Imamura
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, War
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 30, 2012, Original
Runtime: 1h 14m