<  OBACHAN'S GARDEN   Canada 2001 / Video / Color / 94 min. In 1923, at the age of 25, Hiroshima-born Asaya Murakami boarded a ship for Canada. This Japanese picture bride was on her way to marry a man she had never met. But Asaya was no docile bride. She refused to marry the stranger waiting for her. Instead, she wedded another man and settled down in the British Columbia fishing village of Steveston. This docudrama, directed by Asaya's granddaughter, traces her story from her early days in Japan to family life in British Columbia, to forcible relocation during the Second World War and the horror of the atomic bombing of her hometown. Another of Asaya's granddaughters, actress Natsuko Ohama, portrays her as a young woman. Script:  Linda Ohama.    Phot.:  Kirk Tougas.    Ed.:  Manfred Becker, Linda Ohama.    Mus.:  Dennis Burke.    Narr.:  Linda Ohama.    Prod.:  Selwyn Jacob, Linda Ohama, Office national du film du Canada, 3155, C�te de Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9805/06, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].    Sales:  Office national du film du Canada, 3155, C�te de Liesse, Saint-Laurent, Qu�bec H4N 2N4 (Canada), t�l.: (514) 283-9438, fax: (514) 496-1895, e-mail: [email protected].    Canadian Distributor:  Office national du film du Canada.    Linda Ohama Linda Ohama has worked as an artist and art educator since the 1970s and began making documentary film at the beginning of the 1990s. Her first documentary, Last Harvest (1991), about her Japanese Canadian heritage, won awards at several international festivals and was broadcast on the NHK network in Japan. She has also directed: Neighbours: Wild Horses & Cowboys (1997), Watari Dori: A Bird of Passage (1998) and The Travelling Reverend. OBACHAN'S GARDEN is her first feature.

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