While Leia manages to escape with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) has traveled to Dagobah in order to seek the help of Jedi Master Yoda in the funny-talking puppet’s first franchise appearance.
Set just a few years after the original Star Wars, the movie sees Darth Vader desperately trying to locate the Rebel Alliance, which-under the captainship of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)-has set up camp on the remote ice planet of Hoth, which eventually comes under attack by the Imperial forces. But, with all due respect to George Lucas and A New Hope, Irvin Kershner’s The Empire Strikes Back is one of those singular cinematic follow-ups that manages to outshine the original film from which it was born. I just couldn’t grasp the connection between me and George Takei on our TV, issei (first-generation) moms at Japanese school, and the black and white photos in my history books.It's rare that a sequel lives up to its predecessor, and even rarer when it surpasses it. When I was younger, I never really understood why. We watch “Allegiance,” the musical composed by George Takei about Japanese internment camps, on movie nights go to Japanese school on Saturday mornings, and talk about Japanese American history, including the Day of Remembrance. I am a sansei (third-generation) Japanese American high school student, and my parents have made it a point to surround me with information and resources about Japanese culture. 19, it is for the over 110,000 Japanese Americans and their families that we remember. As a result of this fear and hate, the interned carried the trauma of their experiences not for three years but for a lifetime. government justified its actions by questioning the loyalty of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans were subjected to these inhumane conditions for one factor: fear. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, beginning a three-year-long incarceration of Japanese Americans who were forced to leave their homes, jobs, neighbors and friends, and were relocated to internment camps that lacked substantial medical care, privacy, and adequate housing and food across the country. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D.
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