The Manzanar Fishing Club

Name: The Manzanar Fishing Club
Genre: Adventure, History, War, Documentary
Released: September 14, 2012
Duration: 74 min
Rating: 52

2012

METASCORE

Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Movie Details & Credits

From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks | Release Date: September 14, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The Manzanar Fishing Club began as a lecture, walking tour and artifacts exhibit to raise awareness of the internees who slipped away under the cover of night to find freedom and adventure matching wits with the prized trout of the Sierra Nevada's high-altitude lakes and streams. This creative treatment of actual events is the brainchild ofThe Manzanar Fishing Club began as a lecture, walking tour and artifacts exhibit to raise awareness of the internees who slipped away under the cover of night to find freedom and adventure matching wits with the prized trout of the Sierra Nevada's high-altitude lakes and streams. This creative treatment of actual events is the brainchild of cinematographer-turned-director Cory Shiozaki. An avid fisherman whose parents were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were rounded up in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Cory has spent the past six years chronicling the untold story of this overlooked chapter in U.S. history. The project moved to the next level when fellow anglers and video production company principals Lester Chung and John Gengl proposed interviewing the surviving internee fishermen for a documentary film. (From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks)
… Expand

Director: Cory Shiozaki

Genre(s): Adventure, History, War, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 74 min

See All Details and Credits

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Michael Atkinson

Sep 12, 2012

The historical road less traveled - shot in re-enactments that are obviously familiar with the terrain - is beguiling enough. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Sep 12, 2012

At its best, the film uses fishing as a window into the internment experience. At its worst, it uses the internment story as the backdrop for a documentary on trout fishing. Read full review

David DeWitt

Sep 13, 2012

The time with these survivors is appreciated, as who knows how much longer we'll have access to this living history. But I'd rather have heard them describe something other than bait, or how their fishing rods advanced from willow to bamboo to items from the Sears catalog. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Sep 13, 2012

The Manzanar Fishing Club has enough interesting footage for perhaps a 15-minute segment of a TV news magazine. Beyond that, my eyes started to glaze over with endless talk about rods, reels and bait. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Sep 15, 2012

It's a nice little human interest story, but hardly seems worthy of this full-length treatment. Read full review

SEE ALL 5 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.