Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Directors: Glen Samuel & Wendy Ord
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Jenna, a jaded young urban woman, inherits a lake- front property in the interior of British Columbia. Dilapidated log buildings hidden in the bush and unsettling visions of a ghostly eight-year-old Japanese girl suggests there is more to the inherited property than she's been told. During her stay there, she encounters Oyama, a mysterious older Japanese Canadian, and the mystery begins to unfold. Jenna experiences the pain of loss, the power of hope and the value of forgiveness when she learns that her new property was once a Second World War Japanese internment camp. Tora features stunning cinematography and stars Kate Bateman as Jenna, Dr. David Suzuki as Oyama and Kevan Ohtsji as young Oyama.
The Canadian Government interned more than 22,000 people of Japanese descent during the Second World War, three-quarters of them Canadian citizens. Their possessions were seized and sold to cover the costs of keeping the camps, leaving them with nothing at the end of the war. Tora is a modern-day ghost story that should haunt us all.
Directors: Glen Samuel & Wendy Ord
movingimages.ca/store/products.php?tora
Jenna, a jaded young urban woman, inherits a lake- front property in the interior of British Columbia. Dilapidated log buildings hidden in the bush and unsettling visions of a ghostly eight-year-old Japanese girl suggests there is more to the inherited property than she's been told. During her stay there, she encounters Oyama, a mysterious older Japanese Canadian, and the mystery begins to unfold. Jenna experiences the pain of loss, the power of hope and the value of forgiveness when she learns that her new property was once a Second World War Japanese internment camp. Tora features stunning cinematography and stars Kate Bateman as Jenna, Dr. David Suzuki as Oyama and Kevan Ohtsji as young Oyama.
The Canadian Government interned more than 22,000 people of Japanese descent during the Second World War, three-quarters of them Canadian citizens. Their possessions were seized and sold to cover the costs of keeping the camps, leaving them with nothing at the end of the war. Tora is a modern-day ghost story that should haunt us all.
