Editing Manzanar (section)

=== Films and television ===
A made-for-television movie, ''[[Farewell to Manzanar]]'', aired on [[NBC]] in 1976.<ref name="JANM-DVD"/> It was based on the 1973 memoir of the same name, written by [[Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston]], who was incarcerated at Manzanar as a child, and her husband James D. Houston.<ref name="FarewellBook">Houston (1983).</ref><ref name="DiscoverNikkeiJWH">{{cite web | title=Discover Nikkei: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston | url=http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/interviews/profiles/61/ | publisher=DiscoverNikkei.org | date=November 25, 2006 | access-date=November 18, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909113640/http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/interviews/profiles/61/ | archive-date=September 9, 2009 | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2011, the [[Japanese American National Museum]] (JANM) announced that they had negotiated the rights to the movie, and that they would make it available for purchase on DVD.<ref name="JANM-DVD">{{cite web | last=Newman | first=Esther | title=Farewell to Manzanar on DVD-Timeless and Timely | url=http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2011/10/7/farewell-to-manzanar | publisher=Japanese American National Museum | date=October 7, 2011 | access-date=October 11, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111025081225/http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2011/10/7/farewell-to-manzanar/ | archive-date=October 25, 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="FTM-Densho">{{cite web | title=Farewell to Manzanar (film) | url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Farewell_to_Manzanar_%28film%29/ | last=Niiya | first=Brian. | publisher=Densho | date=2018 | access-date=May 13, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514141642/http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Farewell_to_Manzanar_%28film%29/ | archive-date=May 14, 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The 1990 feature film ''[[Come See the Paradise]]'' detailed the forced removal and incarceration at Manzanar of a Japanese American family from Los Angeles.<ref name="NYTImes-CSTP">{{cite news | last=James | first=Caryn | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/23/movies/review-film-when-a-population-was-victimized-at-home.html | title=Review/Film; When a Population Was Victimized at Home | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=December 23, 1990 | access-date=April 23, 2016 }}</ref>

In the 1984 film ''[[The Karate Kid]]'', [[Mr. Miyagi]] opens up to his student Daniel about the dual loss of his wife and son in childbirth at the Manzanar [[internment camp]]; the actor who played Mr. Miyagi, [[Pat Morita]], was interned for two years at Manzanar with his parents.<ref>{{cite news |title=Morita's long road to Miyagi |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Champlin, Charles |date=June 22, 1986 |page=28 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

In [[Die Hard|''Die'' ''Hard'']], [[Hans Gruber]] says that [[Joseph Takagi]] was interred in Manzanar from 1942–1943.

The short film, ''[[A Song for Manzanar]]'', depicts the true story of a detainee and her struggle to remain hopeful for her son and stay in contact with her family in [[Hiroshima]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nprillinois.org/post/springfield-native-screens-film-familys-story-japanese-internment#stream/0|publisher=NPR Illinois | title=Springfield Native Screens Film On Family's Story Of Japanese Internment |author=Otwell, Rachel | date=October 4, 2017 | access-date=September 29, 2020}}</ref>

In "Baku", the 2018 season three episode of ''[[The Man in the High Castle (TV series)|The Man in the High Castle]]'' TV series, Frank Frink is executed for his resistance against the Japanese occupation by [[Kenpeitai]] inspector Kido on the site of the former camp.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tallerico |first=Brian |date=October 7, 2018 |title=The Man in the High Castle Recap: The Different Truth |work=[[Vulture (magazine)|Vulture]] |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/the-man-in-the-high-castle-recap-season-3-episode-9-baku.html |access-date=November 23, 2022}}</ref>{{Clarify inline|date=March 2025}}