Chris Tashima has directed two short films, "Visas and Virtue" (which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film at the 70th Academy Awards) and "Day of Independence" (Emmy nominated). Both have been available on VHS for a while, but have just been released on DVDs. Chris (through Cedar Grove Productions) often has them both available on eBay, but if you go to here, you can download a pdf file to mail away for one or both.

Both are based on one act plays written by Tim Toyama, and both feature Tashima in leading roles. "Visas and Virtue" is a 1997 narrative film inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler." Sugihara issued more than 2,000 transit visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews from his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, in defiance of his own government (Japan), thereby allowing an estimated 6,000 individuals to escape the impending Holocaust. "Day of Independence" was broadcast on PBS, and dramatizes a teen-age boy's fourth of July in an internment camp in 1943. Tamlyn Tomita, Emily Kuroda, Sab Shimono and Greg Watanabe make cameo appearances in a choir scene.

I thought that some here might be interested.