AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: HOT SUMMER WINDS (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic anthology series. Based on two short stories by Hisaye Yamamoto, this program concerns a woman's recollection of turbulent events in her family life during a California earthquake in the summer of 1934. Ten-year-old Yoneko lives with her brother, Seigo, and their Japanese immigrant parents; their mother writes poetry and belongs to a poetry club, and their father is a farmer who is uneasy with his wife's intelligence. A sensitive Latino migrant worker, Marpo, begins working on the farm as a hired hand, but, though Marpo befriends the children, he upsets the fragile balance in the family. When Seigo and Yoneko's mother wins a poetry contest, their parents' relationship seems to deteriorate completely, and a series of events are triggered which leave the children, mother, and Marpo alone together on the farm, waiting for the father to return.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: May 24, 1991 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:24
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:23993
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Japanese-Americans; Earthquakes; California; Asian American Pacific Islanders Collection
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Lindsay Law … Executive Producer
- Ricki Franklin … Executive Producer
- Roger L. Downey … Coordinating Producer
- Wendy Blair Slick … Producer
- Nondas Voll … Associate Producer
- Kay McArthur … Associate Producer
- Gene Abel … Associate Producer
- Emiko Omori … Director, Writer
- Hisaye Yamamoto … Based on the short stories by
- Todd Boekelheide … Music by
- Natsuko Ohama … Cast, Hatsu Hosoume
- Sab Shimono … Cast, Takahashi "Tex" Hosoume
- Tricia Joe … Cast, Yoneko Hosoume
- Rand Takeuchi … Cast, Seigo Hosoume
- Dennis Sakamoto … Cast, Yosh Oka
- Pepe Serna … Cast, Marpo
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi … Cast, Kazuo of the Poetry Club
- Sachiko Nakamura … Cast, Masi of the Poetry Club
- Mie Hunt … Cast, Yoko of the Poetry Club
- Ken Narasaki … Cast, Kiyoji of the Poetry Club
- Joe Oyama … Cast, Yoko's Father of the Poetry Club
- Yuji Okumoto … Cast, Teruo Kuroda
- Jeanne Mori … Cast, Voice, Yoneko