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Description: A film bringing to life the personal sacrifices, losses and grace under pressure of those interned at MINIDOKA, a former Japanese internment camp located in Idaho.
George Takei and Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Karen Day’s ‘Bamboo and Barbed Wire’ is a turbulent narrative of America under stress – past and present. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan, Americans of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned as a threat to national security. Today, post 9/11, Muslims are feared as potential terrorists and banned from this country. Day’s film chronicles the crumbling of the U.S. justice system under the force of fear and prejudice at the northernmost U.S. internment camp, Minidoka, in Idaho. These tales of injustice,
– George Takei
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