Movie: Day of Independence

Top 10 Billed Cast

Derek Mio
Derek Mio

Zip

Marcus Toji
Marcus Toji

Hog

Alan Muraoka
Alan Muraoka

Father

Keiko Kawashima
Keiko Kawashima

Mother

Chris Tashima
Chris Tashima

The Umpire

Gina Hiraizumi
Gina Hiraizumi

Rose

Ulysses Lee
Ulysses Lee

Tad

Jon Okui
Jon Okui

Satch

Diana Toshiko
Diana Toshiko

Betty

Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang

Sadie

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    Zip, a 17 year-old Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) baseball pitcher, faces the tragic circumstances of the World War II internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Set in a relocation camp in the summer of 1943, this film chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by a forced and unjust incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph through courage, sacrifice and the All-American game of baseball.

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    2003-09-26

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    A desert. A baseball diamond. A friendship. America, 1943.

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