Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The cats of Mirikitani [videorecording] / Arthouse Films ; Mongrel Media ; Curiously Bright Entertainment ; Lucid Dreaming, Inc. in association with the Independent Television Service ; producers, Masa Yoshikawa, Linda Hattendorf ; director, Linda Hattendorf.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Arts Alliance America, [2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (96min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of community and art.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Mirikitani, Jimmy Tsutomu, 1920-

Artists -- Biography.

Homeless persons as artists.

Art therapy -- New York (State) -- New York.

Feature films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Yoshikawa, Masa.

Hattendorf, Linda.

Mirikitani, Jimmy Tsutomu, 1920-

Arthouse Inc.

Mongrel Media.

Curiously Bright Entertainment (Firm)

Lucid Dreaming, Inc.

Independent Television Service.

Arts Alliance America (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally released in 2006.

Special features: Interview with Professor Shimomura; Seattle family reunion; meeting Janice Mirikitani; Jimmy's first solo exhibition; return to Hiroshima.

Cinematography, Linda Hattendorf, Masa Yoshikawa ; editors, Keiko Deguchi, Linda Hattendorf ; music, Joel Goodman.

Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Closed-captioned.

Publisher Number:

670479

Other Number:

212879631

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

214211

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 704.086 Cats of

Medium:

[videorecording]