Unfinished Business (1985).
1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.
Surprised to see this with so few reviews! What a great documentary, and so well-deserving of its Oscar nomination in '85. Taking an empathetic eye to the experiences of Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps in the US during World War II, it explores the case of three individual men, Min Yasui, Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu, who each tried to fight the Supreme Court on Order 9066. It's harrowing in parts, but creates not just a compelling portrait of these three men, but offers insight into a facet of the war not often talked about, and the long arm of generational trauma that's affected the generations that have come after them. Really powerful stuff. 8/10.









