Northwest Film Forum

RABBIT IN THE MOON uncovers a buried history of internment camps built by the US government for Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West coast. This new history includes political tensions, social and generational division and the dialectic between resistance and collaboration. Emiko Omori and her older sister, Seattle filmmaker and film critic Chizuko Omori, use archival and recently recovered home movies to confront their own family secrets. They were children when they went to one of the internment camps. Their mother died only a year after the family's release, but silence has surrounded that event. They correspondingly confront the collective quiet among Japanese American about the social antagonisms and insecurities that were born in the camps and still haunt their community life 64 years later.