Powell Street Diary

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The posthumous diary of award-winning Canadian filmmaker, Jesse Nishihata, the Powell Street Diary portrays life in Vancouver's Japantown before the Second World War, and the eventual internment of all Japanese-Canadians. It brings to life the history of a complex time, seen through the eyes of a precocious child.