Defiant to the Last with Emiko Omori and Satsuki Ina

Defiant to the Last: Resistance at the Tule Lake Jail. Japanese Internment documentary screening with Emiko Omori and Satsuki Ina.

Defiant to the Last: Resistance at the Tule Lake Jail, is a documentary that explores a story of collective resistance, revealing the chilling history of the Tule Lake Segregation Center and putting a timely, corrective spotlight on the dissident Japanese Americans who were demonized and punished for speaking out against the false wartime incarceration. NR, 37 mins., 2025

After the documentary Emiko will be in conversation with Satsuki Ina.

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Emiko Omori is a longtime Bay Area resident and a San Francisco State University School of Cinema alumna. She was the first female Asian American cinematographer at KQED, and her most celebrated work, Rabbit in the Moon, explores the Japanese American incarceration experience. She also directed Tattoo City, a documentary on tattoo artist Ed Hardy, among many other films.

Satsuki Ina is a licensed psychotherapist who has spent her professional career seeking to understand the long-term impact of collective and historic trauma. She is co-organizer of Tsuru for Solidarity, a grassroots coalition formed to protest current policies that echo and reverberate the racism and hate so resonant of the historical Japanese American incarceration. She has produced two documentary films, Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon, and is the author of a memoir, The Poet and the Silk Girl.

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