If you had asked me if I would like to play a documentary filmmaker, making movies about his friends who are dying of AIDS, and it's a rock opera, I never would have said [yes]. And yet it's turned out to be the most significant experience of my life.
The start of World War Two marked a harrowing time in Hawaii for the many Japanese-Americans living there. Now in his novel for young readers called Eyes of the Emperor, author and Hawaii native Graham Salisbury shows us how some Japanese-American teenagers dealt with the situation they were handed.
If you had asked me if I would like to play a documentary filmmaker, making movies about his friends who are dying of AIDS, and it's a rock opera, I never would have said [yes]. And yet it's turned out to be the most significant experience of my life. 
