Come See the Paradise (1990)
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Dennis Quaid (Jack McGurn), Tamlyn Tomita (Lily), Sab Shimono, Shizuko
Hoshi, Stan Egi.
Union organizer on the run Jack McGurn gets a job in Little Tokyo in Los
Angeles. He falls in love with his employer's beautiful daughter Lily. The
couple want to marry but the father opposes the marriage and California law
prohibits mixed-race marriages.
The couple moves to Seattle, wed, settle down and have a daughter. They have a falling out and Lily returns to Los Angeles.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps. Lily and her family are sent to such a camp. Jack is drafted into the Army, but soon goes AWOL to find his wife and child.
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