Our Lost Years Documentary Film

The San Diego Chapter JACL, working with Producer/Director Lane Nishikawa, produced a professional feature length educational documentary film, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. Our Lost Years examines how lives were challenged, how livelihoods were lost, how families persevered and started over, and how the generations who have followed, continue to feel the effect of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Though all of our Issei (First generation) have passed on, we witness through their children and grandchildren, how their lives would forever change, and their futures would be unknown. We utilized historic and personal footage and photos to authentically visualize the amazing stories of the entire West Coast Japanese communities.