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John Okada featured in new MIS film, “The Registry”

It was a quintessentially Okada-esque rainy day in 2015 when Midwest filmmakers Bill Kubota and Steve Ozone came to Seattle to talk with me about John Okada.

I’d known Bill from our mutual support on his film on Ben Kuroki, Most Honorable Son, and my film, Conscience and the Constitution, which featured Kuroki. He and Steve were doing a new film on the Military Intelligence Service, and they wanted to know more about Okada’s service in Guam with “The Flying Eight-Ball.”  We talked in my basement office, then ventured out in the rain to see the clock tower at King Street Station where the novel opens.

You can see what a nice job they did in this clip from The Registry.

The Registry screens in two cities on Saturday, Feb. 23 — at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Broadway Performance Hall, and at the Nichi Bei Foundation’s Films of Remembrance program at the New People Cinema in San Francisco’s Japantown. Bill and Steve will be taking questions at the Nichi Bei event.

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