Sisters Matsumoto Audiobook (Free)

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American citizens to detention camps. In 1945, three Japanese-American sisters go back to their farm in Stockton, California, after years in an internment camp, however the once productive family finds it’s not easy to pick up the pieces of their previous lives. As the details of their deceased father’s last plans emerge, the sisters must interact to maintain their dreams alive.

This recording is sponsored about Sisters Matsumoto partly by California Civil Liberties Program from your California State Library.

Includes a conversation with acting professional George Takei, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, and director Tim Dang.

Directed by Tim Dang.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Keiko Agena simply because Rose Matsumoto

June Angela as Grace Matsumoto

Ron Bottitta as Mr. Hersham

Kurt Kanazawa as Henry

Suzy Nakamura as Chiz Matsumoto

Greg Watanabe while Bola

Ryun Yu as Hideo

Sound Effects Musician, Jeff Gardner. Script Supervisor, Daniel Trostler. Creation Manager, Nikki Hyde. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Affiliate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson, Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Documenting Engineer, Sound Developer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, Western Hollywood.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience on the James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in November of 2018.