Come See The Paradise is a deeply moving love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and contentious period in American history. It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita) at the start of World War II. After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the two lovers' painful cultural clash becomes insurmountable. The Kawamuras and Lily have moved. Jack is drafted into the Army and sent to a desolate, outdoor internment camp in California, powerless to help the woman he loves and having given up hope of ever winning her family's approval.
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Come See The Paradise is a deeply moving love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and contentious period in American history. It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita) at the start of World War II. After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the two lovers' painful cultural clash becomes insurmountable. The Kawamuras and Lily have moved. Jack is drafted into the Army and sent to a desolate, outdoor internment camp in California, powerless to help the woman he loves and having given up hope of ever winning her family's approval.
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