A film about Japanese American flower growers and their struggle to rebuild their farms after the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II will be aired this afternoon on KQED-TV, the PBS station in the San Francisco Bay Area, reports Rafu Shimpo.
“Blossoms and Thorns: A Community Uprooted” tells a story of resiliency as the farmers in the floral industry in the San Francisco Bay Area return to fertilize the soil once more.
The film is directed by Ken Kokka, produced by the Contra Costa JACL and narrated by NBC Bay Area’s George Kiriyama.