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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Susanna Thompson, Jon Gries, Masatoshi Nakamura, Aaron Yoo, Sarah Drew, Gary Cole, Tod Huntington, ジュディ・オング

Categories: Movies, Sports, Period Piece, Drama Film, War Film

American Pastime is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah camp which housed thousands of people during the Japanese American internment during World War II. While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the internment camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees' lives. Location scenes were filmed in bleak, desolate land, not far from the site of the actual internment camp. Former Major League Baseball Player John Kruk appeared as announcer. The first scene shows the life of the... MORE

American Pastime is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah camp which housed thousands of people during the Japanese American internment during World War II. While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the internment camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees' lives. Location scenes were filmed in bleak, desolate land, not far from the site of the actual internment camp. Former Major League Baseball Player John Kruk appeared as announcer. The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle). They are forced to leave their home in Los Angeles following the infamous Executive Order 9066, signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Order 9066 permitted the "exclusion" of Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States, and actual historic footage shows the rounding up of these families, most of whom were (like the Nomura sons) born as American citizens. The Nomuras find themselves in a dusty, windblown desert camp. LESS