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In Search of No-No Boy

Using the Japanese American novel No-No Boy, Frank Abe explores how American society re-integrated Japanese citizens, once branded disloyal and untrustworthy and how the returning subculture comes to grips with its place in American society.

Funding Type

Development

Frank Abe

Producer

Frank Abe, a third-generation Japanese American whose father was interned at Heart Mountain, was an award-winning reporter for the CBS Radio affiliate in Seattle for 14 years. His film Conscience and the Constitution, details the largest organized resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.

With a B.A. in theater directing from the University of California at Santa Cruz and training from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Abe (with Frank Chin) was a founding member of the Asian American Theater Workshop (now Theater Company) in San Francisco. He was also featured as an internment camp leader in John Korty’s 1976 NBC-TV movie Farewell to Manzanar.