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Under the Blood Red Sun is a historical novel by Graham Salisbury, published in 1995. An award-winning feature film by Japanese American director Tim Savage and produced by Dana Satler Hankins, from a screenplay by Salisbury, was released in 2014.
Jan 1, 2001 · Under the Blood-Red Sun tells the story of Tomikazu (Tomi) Nakaji, a young boy of Japanese decent who lives peacefully with his sister, immigrant parents, and grandfather in Honolulu in 1941.
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Sep 14, 2014 · With Kyler Ki Sakamoto, Kalama Epstein, Dann Seki, Autumn Ogawa. December 7, 1941 - On a Sunday morning, TOMIKAZU (TOMI) NAKAJI and his best friend BILLY DAVIS are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when the Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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- Drama, Family, History
- Tim Savage
- 2014-09-14
Under the Blood Red Sun, published in 1994, is the first book in Graham Salisbury’s acclaimed Prisoners of the Empire series. Drawing on his upbringing in Oahu and Hawaii, Salisbury leverages personal experiences and interviews to shape the narrative of Under the Blood Red Sun.
The most recent novel from Salisbury, Lord of the Deep, enticingly combines the high action of fishing with a narrative that delves into the intricate relationship between a 13-year-old...
World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested.
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Nov 1, 1995 · Under the Blood-Red Sun provides a riveting view of what Japanese Americans endured at the time of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Loyalties were tested to the extreme as military and volunteer brigades strung barbed wire around the schools and excavated bomb shelters in public parks.
- Graham Salisbury
