The film also explores the lives of the women's parents, Yetsusaburo and Toku Ito, who came to the United States to earn money so they could return to Japan, but whose plans were repeatedly thwarted.įeaturing interviews with the three sisters - conducted in their 80s and 90s - the film is also brought to life through family and archival photographs and documents verbatim quotes from prominent historical figures commentary and analysis from renowned scholars and artistic illustrations. At the center of the film are three Nisei sisters: Natsuye (Nancy), Haruye (Lillian) and Hideko (Hedy), who were born on a farm in the Sacramento River Delta and whose lives were directly impacted by some of the most significant events of 20th-century America, from the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 to the Great Depression to World War II. In particular, the film focuses on the experiences of Issei (or immigrant) and Nisei (or first generation born in the US) women, whose voices have largely been excluded from American history. THE ITO SISTERS captures the rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to the United States and their American-born children.
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