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This article about a United States film director is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Desmond Nakano Born 1953
United StatesOccupation Film director, Screenwriter, Film score composer, Actor Years active 1979–present Desmond Nakano (born in 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, film score composer, and actor. He is Sansei, or third-generation Japanese American. He directed the feature films, White Man's Burden (1995)[1] and American Pastime (2007).[2] His writing credits include the screenplays for the dramatic feature films Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989),[3] American Me (1992),[4] White Man's Burden, and American Pastime.
References
- ^ Wilmington, Michael. Reversal of Fortune Drives "Heady" Burden, Chicago Tribune, Dec. 1, 1995, 7D.
- ^ Wallace, Bruce. Movies; Barracks and Baseball in the Utah Desert; In American Pastime, West Coast Japanese Interned During World War II Take to the Field in a Struggle for Dignity, Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2007, E8.
- ^ Canby, Vincent. Review/ Film; A Brutal, Elegiac Last Exit, Unrelieved by Hope, New York Times, May 2, 1990, C15.
- ^ Turan, Kenneth. Movie Review; American Me Delivers, Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1992, F1.
External links
- Desmond Nakano at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview by Bruce Dancis about "American Pastime" on PopMatters site
Categories:- 1953 births
- Living people
- American actors of Japanese descent
- American screenwriters
- American people of Japanese descent
- American film directors of Japanese descent
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