<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><font size="3">AsiaLens Film Series presents Wings of Defeat
</font><br>Thursday, December 8 at 7pm at the Urbana Free Library<br></div><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">After she learned about her uncle’s secret past as a surviving kamikaze
pilot, Japanese American director Risa Morimoto was inspired to
interview former Kamikaze pilots, now in their 80s, who thoughtfully
recall and share their fears, their ambivalence, their patriotism and
their guilt as survivors, when thousands of their comrades perished
during Japan’s most desperate hour at the end of World War II. Wings of
Defeat is a moving, human re-examination of the Kamikaze legacy from the
perspectives of those who trained for, flew, and survived as suicide
missions, as well as those Americans who survived such attacks. </span><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;"><span style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif;">AsiaLENS
is a series of free public film screenings and lecture / discussion
programs on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia. The series is
organized by the Asian Educational Media Service, a program of the
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.</span> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div> </div></body></html>