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- Died
- Birth nameMasaharu Tatsuno
- Dave Tatsuno was born on August 18, 1913 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director, known for Topaz (1945) and Return to the Valley (2003). He was married to Alice Okada. He died on January 26, 2006 in San Jose, California, USA.
- SpouseAlice Okada(1938 - 2005) (her death, 6 children)
- His film Topaz (1945) is only the second home movie to be placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress (the first was the Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1970)).
- His acclaimed documentary "Topaz" was a home movie within an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during WWII. He was a businessman and department store manager a the time he and his family were interned at the Topaz Relocation Center in the Utah desert in 1942.
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