Steven Okazaki

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Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952, in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American (3rd generation) and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received a Peabody Award and been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for the documentary short subject, Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990).

Most Popular Steven Okazaki Trailers

Total trailers found: 16

Unfinished Business Trailer (1985)

26 January 1985

1985 documentary film about Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a San Francisco welder and how their lives were affected by Japanese American internment during World War II.

Mifune: The Last Samurai Trailer (2016)

02 December 2016

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

Hunting Tigers Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

October, 1987. American filmmaker Steven Okazaki is making a documentary about laureated japanese author Kenzaburo Oe, but all goes wrong when he finds out that due to "mistranslated facts" the subject of his film has only one day to spare before leaving the country.

Heroin: Cape Cod, USA Trailer (2015)

17 December 2015

An unvarnished look at the heroin epidemic sweeping America's small towns and communities, focusing on on eight young addicts in idyllic Cape Cod, Mass.

Facing Fear Trailer (2013)

13 July 2013

The worlds of a former neo-Nazi and the gay victim of his senseless hate crime attack collide by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically shaped both of their lives.

Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo Trailer (1991)

01 February 1991

The story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians interned with Japanese Americans during World War II.

Living on Tokyo Time Trailer (1987)

14 August 1987

When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.

Rehab Trailer (2005)

18 April 2005

Camp Recovery, located in the coastal town of Santa Cruz, Cal., features a mix of new and long-term addicts, most of whom stay for 30 days (the maximum allowed by most insurance companies).

Something Better to Come Trailer (2014)

22 November 2014

Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the largest junkyard in the world: The Svalka.

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Trailer (2007)

06 August 2007

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of nuclear weapons in war.

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street Trailer (2000)

17 March 2000

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of three years.

The Conscience of Nhem En Trailer (2008)

22 August 2008

An intimate look at Cambodia 30 years after the end of the Khmer Rouge's reign.

The Mushroom Club Trailer (2005)

15 March 2005

A filmmaker's journey to Hiroshima, sixty years after the bomb.

Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory Trailer (2015)

14 March 2015

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in Seymour, Indiana.

American Sons Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring four of the country's best Asian American actors, AMERICAN SONS is a challenging exploration of how prejudice, bigotry and violence twists and demeans individual lives.

Alone Together: Young Adults Living With HIV Trailer (1995)

14 July 1995

Young adults talk about their HIV-positive condition.