【1989? ??? ??? ??】Double Feature
Over 100 people attended a screening of two short documentaries — “Jeff Imada: Breaking Barriers by Design” by Cory Shiozaki and “Holiday Bowl” by Mitchell Matsumura —?hosted by Greater Los Angeles JACL on Aug. 19 at Merit Park Recreation Hall in Gardena. The first film focuses on a Japanese American who has worked for decades in Hollywood as a stuntman, coordinating fights for such films as “Furious 7” and “Iron Man 3”; the second is about the Crenshaw District bowling alley and coffee shop that served as a community gathering place from 1958 to 2000. Both were shown during Visual Communications’ Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival last May. Pictured: (Standing, from left) Shiozaki, Matsumura, Ken Okuda, whose father, Harry “Hanko” Okuda, was one of the founders of Holiday Bowl; (seated, from left) Sharon Mori, production coordinator for “Jeff Imada,” Janet Okubo and Louise Sakamoto of GLA JACL. (Photo by?J.K. YAMAMOTO/Rafu Shimpo)