Reminder that Japanese Americas fought in WWII while their families were interned by their govt
I had to watch Go For Broke! because it features six real veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team from World War II. The 442nd was one of two Army units made up of Japanese Americans who volunteered for combat while their families were being held in internment camps because the government was racist and didn’t believe Japanese Americans were loyal citizens during the war. The unit became the most highly decorated in Army history. There are plenty of other Asian American extras in this film as well. That makes Go For Broke! very special because Asians are still hardly represented in Hollywood and here you have a huge number of them.<br /><br />The importance of the film is laid out right at the beginning. Val Johnson plays Lt. Michael Grayson. He goes to see his commanding officer (CO) and says he wants a transfer. His CO asks if that’s because of the kind of troops he’s working with. Grayson says he doesn’t mind working with Japs. His CO corrects him that there are no Japs in the army, they are Nissei, second generation Japanese Americans, and they come from every state and they are all U.S. citizens. He even informs him of some of the slang used in the unit like Haole, which is from Hawaii and refers to whites. Later Grayson questions a captain about the loyalty of the troops and again the lieutenant is informed that these are all Americans, and he needs to change his attitude. Later on Grayson has the roles reversed when in France he confronts a friend over calling his troops Japs. These are powerful scenes. It’s one thing if Grayson was told about this from a Japanese American, because he could dismiss it as coming from a “Jap.” Being told off by white men gives it added importance because whites are more likely to listen to other whites. It also showed that the army which backed this movie was trying to make up for some of the country’s wrongs.<br /><br />When the movie moves to the troops it showed the diversity of Japanese American experiences. They talk about discrimination against Japanese, helping out their families back in the camps, etc. Two of them talk about how they volunteered for the army to prove that they were good Americans. This was an attempt to humanize the soldiers, and show the sacrifices they made and problems they suffered during the war.<br /><br />The rest of the movie covers the 442nd’s deployment to Europe. Unfortunately for a war movie there’s not much combat. Instead the film focuses upon the soldiers and their day to day activities like marching, etc. The fighting scenes are few and far between.<br /><br />Despite that this is a very important movie. To see so many Asian Americans in a 1950s Hollywood film is a rarity. To tell the public about the contribution these soldiers made to the war effort and the constant reminders against anti-Asian racism had even more relevance.<br />C
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