Baseball Behind Barbed Wire

WRITERS: Yuriko Gamo Romer, Shirley Thompson
DIR: Yuriko Gamo Romer
PRODS: Yuriko Gamo Romer, Marc Smolowitz, Co-Producer – Loi Ameera Almeron
FEATURING: Tets Furukawa, Howard Zenimura, Kerry Yo Nakagawa and Bill Staples, Jr.

Guard towers and barbed wired confined the Japanese Americans during the forced incarceration of the World War II. But there was no containing their love of baseball and it provided solace and hope at all ten WWII Japanese American Confinement Camps. The short documentary, Baseball Behind Barbed Wire, about this bitter history, is told with moments of cheer and laughter as the incarcerees rallied to build baseball fields, play ball and even travel long distances, to proclaim their American heritage through their beloved baseball.