Despite the gratingly cheap titles and poster this documentary of acclaimed animation director Jimmy Murakami travelling from his chosen home in Ireland to the site of the former Japanese internment camp at Tule Lake is surprisingly beautiful. It drags a fair amount around the hour mark but encountering it as I did, as a supplementary special feature on the "When the Wind Blows" BFI Blu-Ray, it's an unexpectedly engrossing portrait.
Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien
2010
Animation / Biography / Documentary / History / War
Jimmy Murakami: Non Alien
2010
Animation / Biography / Documentary / History / War
7.4Plot summary
Jimmy T. Murakami is a world-renowned Oscar nominated animator whose credits include When the Wind Blows and The Snowman but there is one dark chapter in his life that he has not revealed until recently. During WW2, Japanese-American citizens like Jimmy and his family were evacuated to a concentration camp in the California desert. This film takes you on an extraordinary journey with Jimmy, from his adopted country Ireland, through his Hollywood career, climaxing with his return to camp to confront his childhood and his still present anger with the American government that put him there.
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720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 712.83 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR