Steven Okazaki
Steven Okazaki | |
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Born | Steven Toll Okazaki March 12, 1952 |
Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
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Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse | |
Children | Daisy Tomoko |
Website | http://www.farallonfilms.com/ |
Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952) is an American
Career
Steven Okazaki started his career at Churchill Films in 1976, making narrative and documentary shorts. In 1982, he produced Survivors for WGBH Boston, a documentary short about Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors. In 1985, he received his first Academy Award nomination for Unfinished Business, about three Nisei Japanese Americans who challenged the Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II in court. In 1987, he wrote and directed the independent film, Living on Tokyo Time, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released by Skouras Pictures.
In 1991, he won the
Okazaki was also involved as a multi-instrumentalist in a San Francisco punk rock music group called The Maids (1977–79), whose sole record, a single called 'Back to Bataan,' gained some notoriety by way of later punk music compilations.[1]
Filmography
Year | Title | Distributor |
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1976 | A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N-S | Farallon Films |
1982 | Survivors | PBS |
1983 | The Only Language She Knows | Farallon Films |
1985 | Unfinished Business | PBS |
1986 | Living on Tokyo Time | Skouras Pictures |
1988 | Hunting Tigers | Farallon Films |
1991 | Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo | PBS |
1992 | Troubled Paradise | PBS |
1993 | The Lisa Theory | Finnish TV |
1994 | American Sons | PBS |
1995 | Alone Together: Young Adults Living With HIV | NHK |
1996 | Life Was Good: The Claudia Peterson Story | NHK |
1999 | Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End Of The Street | HBO |
2002 | The Fair | PBS |
2005 | Rehab | HBO |
2006 | The Mushroom Club | HBO, Cinemax |
2007 | White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | HBO |
2009 | The Conscience of Nhem En | HBO |
2010 | Crushed: The Oxycontin Interview | Farallon Films |
2011 | Approximately Nels Cline | Farallon Films |
2011 | All We Could Carry | Farallon Films |
2014 | Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory | PBS |
2015 | Heroin: Cape Cod, USA | HBO |
2016 | Mifune: The Last Samurai | Strand Releasing |
Personal life
Okazaki has been married since 1991 to writer Peggy Orenstein. They have a daughter, Daisy Tomoko, born in 2003.[2]
References
- ^ "Back to Bataan". L.A. Weekly. June 21, 2000. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017.
- ^ Straus, By Tamara (June 21, 2016). "Orenstein uncovers pain of girls' hook-up culture". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 18, 2019.