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    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-FilmsDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Title\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Japanese War Bride\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Date\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      1952\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Director\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      King Vidor\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Producer\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Joseph Bernhard\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Screenplay\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Anson Bond; Catherine Turney\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Starring\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Shirley Yamaguchi (Tae Shimizu); Don Taylor (Jim Sterling); Cameron Mitchell (Art Sterling); Marie Windsor (Fran Sterling); James Bell (Ed Sterling); Louise Lorimer (Harriet Sterling); Philip Ahn (Eitaro Shimizu); Sybil Merritt (Emily Shafer); Lane Nakano (Shiro Hasegawa); May Takasugi (Emma Hasegawa); William Yokota (Mr. Hasegawa)\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Cinematography\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Lionel Lindon\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Editing\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Terry O. Morse\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Studio\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Twentieth Century-Fox\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Runtime\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      91 minutes\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n       IMDB\n      </a>\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044764/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n       Japanese War Bride\n      </a>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Films\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   Title:Japanese War Bride;\nDate:1952; \nGenre:;\nReleased:;\nDirector:King Vidor;\nProducer:Joseph Bernhard;\nWriter:;\nScreenplay:Anson Bond; Catherine Turney;\nStory:;\nBasedOn:;\nNarrator:;\nStarring:Shirley Yamaguchi (Tae Shimizu); Don Taylor (Jim Sterling); Cameron Mitchell (Art Sterling); Marie Windsor (Fran Sterling); James Bell (Ed Sterling); Louise Lorimer (Harriet Sterling); Philip Ahn (Eitaro Shimizu); Sybil Merritt (Emily Shafer); Lane Nakano (Shiro Hasegawa); May Takasugi (Emma Hasegawa); William Yokota (Mr. Hasegawa);\nMusic:;\nCinematography:Lionel Lindon;\nEditing:Terry O. Morse;\nStudio:Twentieth Century-Fox;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:91 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:\n   <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044764/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044764/\n   </a>\n   ;\nTrailerLink:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n  <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n  <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n   <p>\n    RGMediaType:films;\nTitle:Japanese War Bride;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Evils of racism; Love and sacrifice; Family - blessing or curse;\nGenre:Drama;\nPoV:Caucasian American serviceman; Japanese war bride;\nRelatedEvents:Interracial marriage;\nAvailability:Available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:NR (Not Rated);\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Salinas, California; Japan;\nChronology:1950s;\nFacility:;\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n  1952 movie directed by King Vidor about a white Korean War veteran who returns to his California home with a Japanese war bride. The couple faces subtle and overt opposition from his family and friends that comes to a head when the couple has their first baby. A\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n   Nisei\n  </a>\n  neighbor discusses his family's wartime incarceration, one of the first mentions of this topic in any Hollywood film.\n </p>\n <p>\n  The film begins in Japan, where Jim Sterling (Don Taylor) recovers in a hospital from wounds suffered in the Korean War. He becomes smitten with an English-speaking Japanese nurse, Tae Shimizu (Shirley Yamaguchi), and after a brief courtship, asks her to marry him. After getting grudging permission from her grandfather (Philip Ahn), the couple return to Jim's family farm in Salinas, California. Jim's family—his parents, and two brothers, one newly married to a woman who had had a high school crush on Jim—along with their friends have varying degrees of difficulty accepting Tae. In particular, his new sister-in-law Fran (Marie Windsor) makes it clear that she doesn't approve and soon begins actively trying to make things difficult for the couple. In the meantime the Hasegawas, a neighboring Japanese American family, warmly greet Tae. As Jim makes plans to build a new house for Tae, she announces her pregnancy. Upon the baby's birth, Jim's father receives an anonymous letter that suggests that the father of the baby is not Jim, but the Nisei neighbor Shiro Hasegawa (Lane Nakano). Will their marriage survive this latest obstacle?\n </p>\n <p>\n  When Tae goes out to pick mushrooms with Jim's teenage brother, they run into Shiro. When they had met earlier, he had mentioned that he had lived in Japan, so Tae asks him further about it. He tells her that he went to Japan before the war with a friend and got a good job there. But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, things changed. While his friend \"went over on their side,\" Shiro refused to and was \"put in prison along with some other Americans\" until the end of the war. When Tae mentions that this \"must have been a terrible blow to your family,\" Shiro tells her that they \"had their own troubles,\" getting sent to \"Tulare, a war relocation camp for the Japanese.\"\n  <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n   <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n    [1]\n   </a>\n  </sup>\n  While his sister \"understood,\" their father \"was very bitter about it.\" Later, when Shiro and his sister drop off a wedding gift for Jim and Tae, their father remains in their truck, refusing to even acknowledge the Sterlings. Jim suggests that \"he is still sore because some people tried to buy his land while he was in a relocation center.\" When his mother complains about Mr. Hasegawa's rudeness, Jim's father points out that his behavior was no different than that of one of her friends, who had earlier been unable to even speak to Tae due to her anger over her son's death in the Pacific War.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Co-screenwriter Anson Bond got the idea to do the movie about a war bride while working as a producer for Film Classics and hired Catherine Turney to write a script. Originally titled\n  <i>\n   East Is East\n  </i>\n  and set in World War II, Bond changed the backdrop to the then current Korean conflict. Bond was considering Shirley Temple for the female lead before learning about the well-known Japanese singer and actress Yamaguchi's presence in the U.S. and her desire to break into American movies. The film was eventually made by independent producer Joseph Bernhard, who hired Yamaguchi and assigned her the stage name \"Shirley.\" Bernhard also hired well-known director King Vidor, who was known for films with \"a progressive social conscience,\" including an earlier film,\n  <i>\n   Duel in the Sun\n  </i>\n  , that focused on an interracial romance.\n  <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n   <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n    [2]\n   </a>\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Production of the movie began in June 1951 with scenes shot in Salinas, climaxing with the final scenes of Tai and Jim on the Monterey coastline shot from a helicopter. The cast and crew returned to Hollywood to shoot other scenes—including the Japan scenes—in a studio.\n  <i>\n   Japanese War Bride\n  </i>\n  opened in January 1952, no doubt buoyed by Yamaguchi's high profile marriage less than a month prior to famous sculptor\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Isamu_Noguchi/\" title=\"Isamu Noguchi\">\n   Isamu Noguchi\n  </a>\n  .\n  <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n   <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n    [3]\n   </a>\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n  Despite Japanese American interest in the glamorous Yamaguchi, community response to the movie was relatively muted, relative to the euphoria that had greeted\n  <i>\n   Go for Broke!\n  </i>\n  just a few months earlier. While both movies depicted the racism faced by Japanese Americans, that racism is largely left unresolved in the rather bleak\n  <i>\n   Japanese War Bride\n  </i>\n  , while\n  <i>\n   Go for Broke!\n  </i>\n  shows the Nisei soldiers victory over racism.\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Pacific_Citizen_(newspaper)/\" title=\"Pacific Citizen (newspaper)\">\n    Pacific Citizen\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  columnist\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Bill_Hosokawa/\" title=\"Bill Hosokawa\">\n   Bill Hosokawa\n  </a>\n  complained that the the movie \"was pretty rough on war brides.... Aren't any of them happily adjusted... in this country? Or are we such an inhospitable people... [that] war brides... are doomed to a life of tears?\" Historian Sarah Kovner argues that the film and its publicity \"made Japanese wives increasingly visible in the United States.\" In her analysis of the film, Susan Zeiger points out that mainstream reviewers were troubled by the film's stark depiction of racism and that several critics imposed their own views on the film by reading it as a tragedy despite the apparently happy ending. The movie was also released in Japan under the title\n  <i>\n   Higashi wa higashi\n  </i>\n  —a direct translation of the original title—and received largely negative reviews there as well.\n  <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n   <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n    [4]\n   </a>\n  </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n  <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n   <h2>\n    <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n     Related Articles\n    </span>\n   </h2>\n   <div class=\"section_content\">\n    <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n    </p>\n    <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n     <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n      <h3>\n       <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n       </span>\n      </h3>\n      <div class=\"section_content\">\n       <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n       </p>\n       <ul>\n        <li>\n         <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Dramatic_films/videos_on_incarceration/\" title=\"Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\">\n          Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\n         </a>\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Lubin, Alex.\n    <i>\n     Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954\n    </i>\n    . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Marchetti, Gina.\n    <i>\n     Romance and the 'Yellow Peril': Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction\n    </i>\n    . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Palumbo-Liu, David.\n    <i>\n     Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier\n    </i>\n    . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Tang, Edward. \"From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War\n    <i>\n     . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.\n    </i>\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Zeiger, Susan.\n    <i>\n     Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century\n    </i>\n    . New York: New York University Press, 2010.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n    Footnotes\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n    <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n     <ol class=\"references\">\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        The\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tulare_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Tulare (detention facility)\">\n         Tulare Assembly Center\n        </a>\n        closed on September 4, 1942; nearly all inmates there went on to the\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Gila_River/\" title=\"Gila River\">\n         Gila River\n        </a>\n        , Arizona concentration camp, though there is no mention in the movie of any other camp besides Tulare. In real-life, Japanese Americans from Salinas were sent to the\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Salinas_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Salinas (detention facility)\">\n         Salinas Assembly Center\n        </a>\n        , then to\n        <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Poston_(Colorado_River)/\" title=\"Poston (Colorado River)\">\n         Poston\n        </a>\n        .\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        Larry Tajiri, \"Nisei USA: Love Story Via Hollywood,\"\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , July 14, 1951, 4; Larry Tajiri, \"Nisei USA: And the Twain Shall Meet,\"\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , Sept. 1 1951, 4; and\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , Aug. 26, 1950, 3, all accessed on Jan. 12, 2018 at\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-28/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-28/\n        </a>\n        ,\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-28/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-28/\n        </a>\n        , and\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-22-33/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-22-33/\n        </a>\n        . Yamaguchi Yoshiko and Fujiwara Sakuya,\n        <i>\n         Fragrant Orchid: The Story of My Early Life\n        </i>\n        , translated and with an introduction by Chia-ning Chang (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015), 264; Susan Zeiger,\n        <i>\n         Entangling Alliances: Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century\n        </i>\n        , (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 195.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , June 9, 1951, 5; June 23, 1951, 4, and Dec. 29, 1951, 8, all accessed on Jan. 12, 2018 at\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-23/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-23/\n        </a>\n        ,\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-25/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-25/\n        </a>\n        , and\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-52/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-52/\n        </a>\n        . Larry Tajiri, \"Nisei USA: Japanese War Bride,\"\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , Dec. 1, 1951, 4 and Larry Tajiri, \"Nisei USA: Japanese War Bride,\"\n        <i>\n         Pacific Citizen\n        </i>\n        , Jan. 12, 1952, 4, both accessed on Jan. 12, 2018 at\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-48/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-48/\n        </a>\n        and\n        <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-2/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n         http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-2/\n        </a>\n        .\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        In his detailed analysis of the film, David Palumbo-Liu writes that \"the film's attempt at settling issues of race, sexuality, but also of the internment, agricultural strife, and so on, is incomplete.\" David Palumbo-Liu,\n        <i>\n         Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier\n        </i>\n        (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), 226. Sarah Kovner,\n        <i>\n         Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan\n        </i>\n        (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012), 65; Zeiger, Susan,\n        <i>\n         Entangling Alliances\n        </i>\n        , 196–97; Yamaguchi and Fujiwara,\n        <i>\n         Fragrant Orchid\n        </i>\n        , 281.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n     </ol>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160750\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.025 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.033 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 469/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 9319/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2249/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 3965/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   22.442      1 -total\n 13.75%    3.086      1 Template:Reflist\n 12.97%    2.910      1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 11.21%    2.515      1 Template:Databox-Films\n 10.71%    2.403      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n  6.27%    1.407      1 Template:AuthorByline\n  6.18%    1.387      1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n  6.10%    1.368      1 Template:Published\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3325-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160750 and revision id 35479\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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