Please join us for a special “Sneak Preview” of the full-length Feature Film Kintsukuroi, benefitting the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and the New Dharma Center of the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin (SJB).

Mark your calendars for February 10th, 2024 at 2pm

Tickets available online

kintsukuroi n.
1. Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold
2. the beauty and strength found within something that has been broken

The promise that is America is within the grasp of two immigrant families living in Northern California. The Itos are industrious shopkeepers in San Francisco and the Ibatas are hardworking farmers from a small rural community.

With a stroke of his pen, President Roosevelt destroys their lives and the lives of another 120,000 Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Both families lose everything they own but the emotional cost of the war is even more devastating. Sent to Utah and Wyoming, respectively, the two families live lives of quiet desperation behind barbed wire fences and gun towers. Some will go off to fight the war, others remain and resist but everyone will make sacrifices that change the course of their lives forever.

KINTSUKUROI will take you from San Francisco to the concentration camps in the American West to the battlefields of Europe and back again as the Itos and the Ibatas pick up the pieces of their broken lives. The film was shot at locations in San Jose, San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area and Northern Californian. It features Ryan Takemiya, Kealani Kitaura, Ken Takeda, Ron Munekawa, Kiyomi Koide and Chizuko Omori.

Kintsukuroi’s San Jose Japantown Preview will take place February 10, 2024 at 2pm, hosted by the San Jose Buddhist Church in partnership with the Japanese American Museum of San Jose.