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HOGOZ |
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Episodes |
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Teenagers. Hormones. Barbed wire...It’s going to be a long war! |
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EPISODES FROM “APRIL 7, 1943” |
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Arrival - Episode 1 |
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Set up: Teenagers Coolidge and Yerry arrive at Hogoz, a euphemistically named “citizen isolation center.” Here they soon meet George, an inu, and KC, a “tough girl.”
Background: If you messed up with the authorities at one of the big concentration camps, you were hustled off to a “stinker camp.” Due process? Forget about it. The President of the United States signed away your inalienable rights with Executive Order 9066. |
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Carnitas - Episode 3 |
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Set up: Having narrowly escaped confinement in a “tiger cage,” Coolidge and Yerry get better acquainted with the administrator, Boylin, a pedophile with gourmet appetites.
Background: Most Americans have little or no idea that these concentration camps existed. And of those who do, they have little awareness of how ugly life in these camps could be. These teenagers in Hogoz are prey to some really crazed adults...to say nothing about what they do to each other. |
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Deal - Episode 4 |
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Set up: Coolidge and Yerry quickly figure that the Putzkammer’s are family of sweet losers of whom it will be easy to take advantage.
Background: Undoubtedly, many of the staff who worked as teachers in the camps were decent people. Many others were folks that could not get work anywhere else. The Putzkammer’s mistake was joining the America First Committee, an anti-war organization that became defunct after the attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Maria - Episode 5 |
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Set up: After many comic confrontations during their arrival day, Coolidge and Yerry at last find a “dump” to call their own. It is dirty, cluttered, and spider-invested, but it is theirs. As they begin to settle, however, Boylin and Nagel burst into their quarters.
Background: As in the actual concentration camps that held Americans of Japanese ethnicity, people had to make do with limited materials to try to protect themselves from the elements and the authorities. It brings out ingenuity and duplicity, especially in harassed teenagers. |
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Mess (Part One) - Epis. 1 |
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Set up: George helps Princess with her hair and tiara, as they line up for breakfast at the mess. KC appears, and soon the two girls get into a fight. Marx steps in to help George break it up.
Background: There is a long tradition of beauty pageants among Japanese Americans. They even continued during the war in some of the prisons such as Manzanar. As always, there are winners and losers. Sometimes, there are those who go over the edge. |
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Mess (Part Two) - Epis. 1 |
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Set up: KC teases Marx about his crush on Princess, which he denies. As other kids line up, each one joins in, but suddenly the tables are turned on KC for her crush on MimI.
Background: Marx is a kibei, as were many American-born kids. Their parents sent them for education in Japan because they were not confident that they would have a secure life in the U.S. While there, some of them came into contact with the Japanese Communist Party, the only group willing to contest the rise of militarism. |
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EPISODES FROM “APRIL 8, 1943” |
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Laundry - Episode 2 |
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Set Up: Mimi is swept off her feet by Sam-Sam, a new arrival at the camp who has dreams of Hollywood in his heart. He persuades her to help him "finance" his show. Moments later, Tex and Babydoll enter the laundry, and their banter leads to a sexy duet. But it is Marx who is seduced amid all the talk of sweat and lather.
Background: Nobody is a saint. Kids take money, Parents pimp out their children. Everyone is vulnerable to selfishness. Strike up the music and dance! |
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Concessions - Episode 3 |
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Set Up: George's day gets complicated, as he holds off Boylin from entering his private toilet where he has allowed the sociopathic guard Nagel to take a dump. Soon after, while delivering his surveillance report to the camp administrator, George finds Biddy Putzkammer struggling to reconcile the delivery manifest with the items in front of her. Among the items are comic books and candy bars for George's concessions business. George discovers the "shrinkage," but encourages Biddy not to worry about it. Leaving admin with his goods, George runs into Mimi and Sam-Sam who try to persuade him to be in the "show."
Background: It’s hard out here for an inu (see link at top). |
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Gossip - Episode 4 |
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Talkie and Lizzy discover that George appears to be in a “relationship” with Mimi--and maybe even Sam-Sam. They persuade Carl Putzkammer to have a “talk” with KC.
Go to Cast for more information about the characters and the actors playing them. |