Kahuku: Survival of a Plantation Town

Kahuku: Survival of a Plantation Town (1988)

N/A 19 min Movie
Documentary

When the Kahuku sugar plantation and mill shut down in the 1970's, workers who lived in plantation housing had to decide how to hold the community together and create something new out of an industry that had come to an end. This is the story of their successful transition from plantation to self-governing community.

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Cast

Scott Shirai Scott Shirai Narrator
Tom Nakayama Tom Nakayama Self
John Primacio, Jr. John Primacio, Jr. Self
Seiko Shiroma Seiko Shiroma Self

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