GENRE: Feature-length Adventure/Drama (Historical,
War)
TIME: December, 1941
PLACE: Ni'ihau, Hawaii’s Forbidden Isle
SCRIPT: 102 pages, WGA
Registered.
SUMMARY:
Isolated from the world and completely unaware of Pearl Harbor's destruction, natives on Hawaii’s “Forbidden Isle” of Niihau innocently welcome a Japanese fighter pilot who crashed in their midst. Aiming to capture Hawaii for the Emperor in the fragile days that follow, the pilot preys on Japanese-Americans living among the peaceful villagers.
But when a crafty Hawaiian cowboy and his fearless wife stand up to the pilot’s growing brutality, all of Niihau rises up to defend itself against the invader, and claim America's first official victory of World War II.
But in Washington, the secret fateful events on a tiny island half a world away catapulted America into one of its darkest decisions in history. A quarter million U.S. citizens were ordered to internment camps because The Nihauu Incident proved to them that Japanese-Americans couldn't be trusted during the War.
The bizarre untold true story of The Ni’ihau Incident.