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Come See the Paradise


by Michael Seresin, Alan Parker, Gerry Hambling, Nellie Nugiel, Robert F. Colesberry
Directed by Alan Parker
Starring Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi
20th Century Fox

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Sales Rank: 27289
Release Date: June 06, 2006
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Running Time: 138 minutes
Theatrical Release: December 31, 1969
Studio: 20th Century Fox


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EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Description
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II.

The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.



CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 32 reviews)

A SLEEPER OF A GOOD MOVIE  
THIS IS A SLEEPER OF A GOOD MOVIE, WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF THE INJUSTICE THAT WAS DONE TO JAPANESE AMERICAN PEOPLE DURING WW2.
EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES BY ALL.A LOVE STORY THAT IS ALSO VERY
INFORMATIVE.
December 01, 2008

Tomita saves a sinking ship...  
The message of this film is very important, and historically accurate.
But so much didn't work: Quaid's unresolved past and military service (going AWOL often and without punishment). His relationship with his cussing brother, his NYC movie union debacle. And why was there no mention of the 1.6 billion dollars paid in repairations at the movie's end?(Paid in 1998, this Film made in 1991).

Still, this movie tugs at the heart. Lost in all of this is the performance of one of the greatest unknown actresses our our time, Tamlyn Tomita. She is brilliant, and her talent is wasted opposite Quaid whose Irish accent appears and reappears. Sadly, guess who became famous?
October 27, 2008

Difficult to believe, but true  
This is the second time I see this film, so I was surprised by the dramatic reality of the Concentration Camps for Japanese in the USA the first time I saw it, not now. This time I was really captivated by how the whole human story and love story hurt, really hurt, and by a wonderful Dennis Quaid who I think played here maybe his best role as an actor.
April 09, 2008

Caught between two sides in a conflict  
This is an excellent movie about ordinary people who are caught between cultures in a time of war. This movie is a simple movie dealing with fear, prejudice, passion, and interracial relations in a time of conflict. It is a war movie about war on the homefront so don't expect any action scenes. It is one of my all time favorites.
November 09, 2007

powerful.....  
I first saw this a requirement for a history class, when we were studying the effects of Japanese internment in the United States on those who were forced to stay in the barracks, due to Executive Order 9066, authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1942. This order allowed local military commanders to designate "military areas" as "exclusion zones", from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps. The seizure and relocation of all people of Japanese ancestry surged following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when anyone of that background was viewed potentially as a spy and "anti-American." COME SEE THE PARADISE takes a look at that part of United States history.

Irish-American Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) gets a job at a movie theater and falls in love with his boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura (Tomlyn Tomita). This enrages her father who fires Jack and forbids him to see her. Despite this, the couple continues to see each other and they leave for Seattle. It is at this time that all people of Japanese ancestry are being forceably placed in the internment camps.

This film is well-acted and I think it's wonderful to see the story and experience of the internment camps brought to life as an engaging film. This part of our nation's history needs to be acknowledged and I think that this film really pays tribute to all of the people whose lives were turned upside down because of the government enforced order between 1942 and 1946.
August 18, 2007


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