Issei Wahine: First Generation Woman 1992

Tells the story of a granddaughter's discovery of her family's history through the "talk stories" of her grandmother, a first-generation immigrant who labored in the Hawaiian sugar plantations over seventy years ago. Ann Akiko Moriyasu reveals the story of her grandmother's life incorporating information from family photos, archival films, and personal interviews with her grandmother and with other first generation women immigrants.