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Julianne Nicholson and Takashi Yamaguchi in Sophie and the Rising Sun

Review: Sophie and the Rising Sun

12 Comments / Movies / By Virginia DeBolt / May 8, 2017 / Diane Ladd, elders rock, Julianne Nicholson, Lorraine Toussaint, Margo Martindale, Sophie and the Rising Sun, Takashi Yamaguchi, Women Directors

Sophie and the Rising Sun is set in South Carolina at the start of WWII just before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A Japanese-American man, Grover Ohta (Takashi Yamaguchi) is dumped, beaten and bruised, on a bench at […]

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Watch This: Trailer for Sophie and the Rising Sun

Sophie and the Rising Sun is a tale of interracial love during WW II. As you know, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered WW II, American discrimination against anyone of Japanese extraction grew to a fever