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The Picture Bride
The Picture Bride

Mon, Oct 14

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Honokaa

The Picture Bride

Japanese Night at Peoples Theatre 5pm Katsu Goto Talk Story & 7pm Picture Bride: Poignant story of a young Japanese woman married off to Hawaii to work on the Sugar Plantations.

Time & Location

Oct 14, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Honokaa, 45-3574 Mamane St, Honokaa, HI 96727, USA

About the Event

5pm Talk Story with Dr. Patsy Iwamoto about Katsu Goto

7pm Movie Picture Bride

Picture Bride is a 1995 American Japanese-language feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay co-written with Mari Hatta. Picture Bride premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for narrative dramatic feature film. Considered a landmark Asian American work, the film was an Official Selection at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature.


This gorgeous period peice details lives in Japan and on the Hawaii Sugar Plantations as the film follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" at the turn of the century for a man she has never met before. The story is based on the historical practice, due to U.S. anti-miscegenation laws, of Japanese immigrant laborers in the United States using long-distance matchmakers in their homelands to find wives. After the father…

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