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Third Act | Trailer

Season 27 Episode 12 | 30s

Robert A. Nakamura helped shape Asian American cinema. Now, his son films their final act together. As Parkinson’s disease and political unrest reopen buried trauma, Third Act captures an intimate reckoning between father and son using film to say what words never could.

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