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Allegiance is a musical with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo and a book by Marc Acito, Kuo and Lorenzo Thione.The story, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II (with a framing story set in the present day), was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei, who starred in the musical.
George Takei (/ t ə ˈ k eɪ / tə-KAY; born April 20, 1937), born Hosato Takei (Japanese: 武井 穂郷, Hepburn: Takei Hosato), is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
Allegiance, also known as Recalled, is a 2012 American war film directed by Michael Connors and starring Bow Wow. Allegiance takes place in October 2004 and concerns the upcoming deployment of a New York Army National Guard unit to Iraq.
The writing was done by Takei, Eisinger, and Scott, with Becker creating the grey-scale, manga-inspired illustrations. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The memoirs focusing on Takei's time as a child take up the bulk of the work, and the "harsh reality" and "minutiae of daily life" occur back and forth. [ 3 ]
Supinder Wraich (/ r æ tʃ / RATCH [2]) is an Indian-born Canadian actress.For her starring roles in the web series Guidestones, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards, [3] The 410, [4] [5] and Allegiance, playing a rookie police officer in Surrey, BC.
Never So Few is a 1959 CinemaScope Metrocolor war film directed by John Sturges and starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, Brian Donlevy, Dean Jones, Charles Bronson and Philip Ahn, and featuring uncredited roles by renowned Asian actors Mako, George Takei and James Hong.
In addition to Quan, Brolin, Cohen, Green, Feldman and Astin, the film starred Martha Plimpton, as well as supporting cast members John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano and Mary ...
Early Asian American actors such as Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong, and Bruce Lee encountered a movie-making culture and industry that wanted to cast them as caricatures. Some, like actress Merle Oberon, hid their ethnicity to avoid discrimination by Hollywood's racist laws. Asian Americans are rapidly gaining access to the American mainstream. [2]