Several years after the U.S. government’s forced incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII, a Japanese immigrant family runs a struggling dry-cleaning business in Chicago.
Several years after the U.S. government’s forced incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII, a Japanese immigrant family runs a struggling dry-cleaning business in Chicago.
A Japanese writer/director and educator based in Arizona and New York, exploring transnational experiences of Asian and women’s lives. She has produced over 50 fiction and documentary projects. Her writer/director credits include Resettlement – Chicago Story, winner of the Special Jury Prize at New York Japan CineFest; Frog Catcher, winner of the Audience Award for Best Mix Short at Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival; and the Tokyo Video Festival Excellence Award-winning Shall We Sing? (PBS). Her producing credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s live cinema Distant Vision, Sundance Official Selection Kusama – Infinity, and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Redemption, as well as HBO’s No Contract, No Cookies and Wartorn 1861–2010.
World Premiere - Chicago History Museum 2023
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 2026
Films of Remembrance Nichibei Foundation 2023
DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon 2023
Japan Association of Audiovisual Producers (JAAP) 2025, Award for Creative Excellence
New York Japan CineFest 2024, Special Jury Prize
New Jersey International Film Festival 2023, Honorable Mention
Actor - Lynn Masako Cheng
Producers - Eugene Sun Park, Jason Matsumoto, Yuki Solomon, Reina Higashitani
Cinematographer - Vittoria Campaner
Editors - April Merl and Reina Higashitani
