In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
Come See the Paradise is a Drama, Romance, History film released in 1990.
8 subtitle releases available in English. 1 release includes Hearing Impaired (HI) subtitles.
Movie Dialogue Sample
468
00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:35,229
I told you, Jack!
469
00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:39,650
Best you get yourself
a nice American girl.
470
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:04,425
Lily?
471
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:07,762
Is Lily here?
472
00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:09,889
No Lily, sorry.
She not work today.
473
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:13,809
What?
474
00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:15,693
She's gone to see her aunt
on Terminal Island.
475
00:39:15,770 --> 00:39:18,356
Okay. Thanks.
476
00:40:25,381 --> 00:40:28,676
Mr. Kawamura,
may I have a word with you, please?
477
00:40:38,185 --> 00:40:40,020
May I sit down, sir?
478
00:40:50,030 --> 00:40:55,411
Mr. Kawamura, I'm...
sorry if I've offended you, sir.
479
00:40:55,494 --> 00:40:59,498
I still don't know
why I've offended you. Uh...
480
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:04,003
You see, I'm just a dumb
mick from... New York.
481
00:41:04,086 --> 00:41:08,299
And I'm not aware of all your customs
and your traditions and all.
482
00:41:08,382 --> 00:41:11,844
But I'm trying really hard to learn.
483
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:18,601
And I would very much like to see
your daughter again, sir.
484
00:41:18,684 --> 00:41:21,020
It's not possible.
485
00:41:21,103 --> 00:41:23,606
- To go out with her.
- It's not possible!
486
00:41:23,689 --> 00:41:25,483
- To...
- It's not possible!
487
00:41:25,566 --> 00:41:29,445
You can keep saying "it's not possible"
all night, Mr. Kawamura.
488
00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:36,243
Mr. Kawamura, I am trying really hard
to be respectful, sir.
489
00:41:36,327 --> 00:41:39,872
Honest to God, I am.
I am trying really hard to understand
490
00:41:39,955 --> 00:41:42,917
wh-what this must mean to you.
491
00:41:45,419 --> 00:41:47,213
But I love your daughter.
492
00:41:51,425 --> 00:41:54,470
I know you look at me,
and you see some nothing bum
493
00:41:54,553 --> 00:41:56,764
who works for you for $20 a week,
494
00:41:56,847 --> 00:41:59,725
and doesn't seem to amount to much.
I know that.
495
00:42:01,143 --> 00:42:03,854
But I think
I can be better than that, sir.
496
00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:08,150
And dumb and stupid
as this may sound to you,
497
00:42:08,234 --> 00:42:12,363
what I can never be, not ever
498
00:42:12,446 --> 00:42:14,240
is Japanese.
499
00:42:16,825 --> 00:42:19,370
But I couldn't love Lily more.
500
00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:35,279
How was Terminal Island?
501
00:43:36,322 --> 00:43:37,448
Pretty.
502
00:43:37,531 --> 00:43:39,575
We had tea with my aunt.
503
00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:45,497
My mother and my sisters stayed.
I left. I took the ferry home.
504
00:43:47,249 --> 00:43:50,711
They're still probably
looking for me out on the beach.
505
00:43:52,546 --> 00:43:54,381
I have to leave.
506
00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:56,967
I know.
507
00:43:57,051 --> 00:43:59,386
I heard.
508
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:01,347
Where will you go?
509
00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:02,848
I don't know.
510
00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:08,354
I want you to come with me.
I want to marry you, Lily.
511
00:45:04,368 --> 00:45:07,371
You sat up and talked all night?
512
00:45:07,454 --> 00:45:09,206
Yep.
513
00:45:09,289 --> 00:45:11,375
What did he talk about?
514
00:45:11,458 --> 00:45:13,335
Well, lots of stuff.
515
00:45:13,419 --> 00:45:15,379
Your papa knew so many things
516
00:45:15,462 --> 00:45:19,133
about politics, and history,
and everything.
517
00:45:19,216 --> 00:45:21,176
Did you kiss?
518
00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:23,053
A little.
519
00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:24,805
Did you have a big wedding
520
00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:27,558
with Mama and Papa Kawamura,
and Dulcie and Frankie...
521
00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:29,351
No. No, we couldn't.
522
00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:30,978
Why?
523
00:45:31,061 --> 00:45:33,856
Well, for a start, Japanese
aren't allowed to marry non-Japanese
524
00:45:33,939 --> 00:45:35,357
in the state of California.
525
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:36,984
Why?
526
00:45:37,067 --> 00:45:39,194
'Cause it was against
the California laws.
527
00:45:39,278 --> 00:45:41,155
So where did you go?
528
00:45:41,238 --> 00:45:42,281
Seattle.
529
00:45:42,364 --> 00:45:44,450
Why did you go to Seattle?
530
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:46,827
'Cause it's not California.
We could get married there.
531
00:45:46,910 --> 00:45:49,663
Can we have a snow cone, Mama?
532
00:45:50,789 --> 00:45:52,207
We've got tea.
533
00:45:58,005 --> 00:45:59,381
Okay.
534
00:46:05,763 --> 00:46:09,725
Didn't even Mama Kawamura
come to the wedding?
535
00:46:09,808 --> 00:46:13,187
<i>No. No, she didn't.</i>
536
00:46:58,690 --> 00:47:02,027
What did you wear?
Were you pretty?
537
00:47:02,110 --> 00:47:07,449
Oh, I had a beautiful dress
with a lace collar and cuffs.
538
00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:11,203
And I wore my hair special
with a bow just like yours.
539
00:47:17,334 -->
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