Last week in IE core class, we saw a movie called 'Obaachan's garden'. The story was about a 100 year old Japanese-Canadian lady, directed by her own granddaughter, Linda Ohama.
The movie showed obaachan's (grandmother in Japanese) earlier days back in Japan, and how she lived all the hard circumstances throughout her life. Through the movie, obaachan never forgot to be kind to others, and to have a positive attitude toward life. She also had the strong identity as a Japanese person. Later in the movie, the directer Linda Ohama discovers that obaachan had two more daughters back in Japan from her previous marriage. The scene where obaachan and the daughter met after long years was very touching.
This movie had given me the opportunity to know about the Japanese-Canadian's lives during and after the war, which is not usually focused on in other movies. I would like many more people to see this movie.
