About this Event
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Join us at the Irving Archives & Museum on Saturday, March 15 at 10:00 AM for a special screening of Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides, followed by a live Q&A with co-director Lucy Craft! This Emmy-winning journalist has spent decades covering Japan for major media outlets, and she’s bringing her expertise and insight to IAM for one day only!
This short documentary reveals the untold stories of Japanese women who married American servicemen after WWII, facing challenges of race, identity, and belonging in postwar America. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from the filmmaker! The film runs 26 minutes.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Based in Tokyo, Lucy has covered Japan for American and international newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV since 1982, working for NPR, PBS, BBC, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, among many others. As a producer and correspondent for CBS News, she won an Emmy and two nominations. She reported on the 2011 tsunami-quake-nuclear disaster and its continuing aftermath, and has produced segments on everything from regional security and politics, to black bear attacks and the soaring popularity of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery.
A chance conversation led Lucy to team up with two colleagues, co-directing a short documentary about the hidden lives of their mothers. Named for a Japanese motto about perseverance
「七転び八起き」、 Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides premiered on BBC World Television in 2015. The enormous literature unearthed since that first project sparked the creation of a downloadable, public school curriculum in collaboration with Stanford University, and a war bride exhibition which began its nationwide, three-year run at this museum last December.
Lucy is now editing a second, feature-length documentary on the war brides, describing the extraordinary alchemy that made the marriages possible, and how the women fit into the racially charged society of the 1950s. Sakuras of Steel: Japanese War Brides in America, is slated for release in 2025.
This programming is offered to complement the Smithsonian SITES exhibition Japanese War Brides: Across A Wide Divide, on view through April 6, 2025, and its companion exhibition HOLD FLOWERS IN BOTH HANDS: One woman's story of love, faith and fortitude, on view through March 2025.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Irving Archives and Museum, 801 West Irving Boulevard, Irving, United States
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