Sansedai (Three Generations)

Name: Sansedai (Three Generations)
Uploaded: 2025-12-09T23:00:06Z
Duration: 653 s
Description: Over old photobooks and home movies from the 1930s, the filmmaker talks with her 92-year-old grandmother about growing up in Japan during the war and moving to the United States in the 1950s, when hostility toward Japanese people ran high. A wedding kimono links three generations as the film explores identity, belonging and what it means to be Japanese-American.

Year listed: 2025

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SANSEDAI (三世代) - Award Winning Documentary Short Film

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11 min · English · Documentary

Over old photobooks and home movies from the 1930s, the filmmaker talks with her 92-year-old grandmother about growing up in Japan during the war and moving to the United States in the 1950s, when hostility toward Japanese people ran high. A wedding kimono links three generations as the film explores identity, belonging and what it means to be Japanese-American.

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Take a short break with “Sansedai (Three Generations)” to see the world from another angle. Three generations of a Japanese-American family, through 1930s home movies and photobooks.

Wartime memories, migration, aging and family history. Source-based review; not independently rated for children.

Source: Kayli Kimura

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