J.T. Takagi

J.T. Takagi

J.T. Takagi is a third generation Japanese-American independent filmmaker who works as the Executive Director of Third World Newsreel, a media arts center in New York City. An award-winning filmmaker and sound recordist, Takagi’s directorial credits include The Women Outside, Community Plot, Homes Apart: Korea and Bittersweet Survival, the latter two made with Christine Choy. In addition to this, Takagi teaches at the City College of New York and the School of Visual Arts and works with several Asian American community groups.

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J.T. Takagi Movies

  • 1987
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    Working Girls

    Working Girls

    5.9 1987 HD

    A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

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  • 2001
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    The Chinatown Files

    The Chinatown Files

    1 2001 HD

    This documentary brings to the public, for the first time, a story that was classified as secret by the US government for over four decades....

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  • 1985
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    Namibia: Independence Now!

    Namibia: Independence Now!

    1 1985 HD

    A revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola...

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  • 1991
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    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

    1 1991 HD

    They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

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  • 1982
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    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    6 1982 HD

    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

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  • 1996
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    The Women Outside

    The Women Outside

    1 1996 HD

    They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to...

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  • 1991
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    Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box

    Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box

    5 1991 HD

    “It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flouted prescriptions...

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  • 1984
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    Community Plot

    Community Plot

    1 1984 HD

    This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker...

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  • 1978
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    Tryptich

    Tryptich

    1 1978 HD

    TRYPTICH is set on the opening night of a new play when actor Franklin Samuels ponders his past and future within the depths of his creative mind. He...

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  • 1990
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    Azul

    Azul

    1 1990 HD

    In 1988 it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario published his first work. Azul was the first publication of...

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  • 2017
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    Resistance at Tule Lake

    Resistance at Tule Lake

    1 2017 HD

    The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II....

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  • 1991
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    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

    1 1991 HD

    They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

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  • 1982
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    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    6 1982 HD

    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

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  • 1982
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    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    6 1982 HD

    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

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  • 2004
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    The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

    The Rise & Fall of Penn Station

    9.5 2004 HD

    In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East...

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  • 1984
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    Community Plot

    Community Plot

    1 1984 HD

    This satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker...

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  • 1987
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    Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

    Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

    1 1987 HD

    One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair...

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  • 1996
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    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School

    1 1996 HD

    The groundbreaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about lesbian, gay,...

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  • 1992
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    Cousin Bobby

    Cousin Bobby

    5.5 1992 HD

    Robert Castle is the idealistic pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Harlem, and also the cousin of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Demme's...

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