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The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island’s history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources—from Banua-Simon’s observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences — Cane Fire offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story.
Original Release
05/28/2020
US Release
03/21/2021
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Cast
Name | Character |
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John Allen | Man with yellow lei in Seven |
Bam Bam | Bus Driver in Dinocroc vs. Supergator |
Lex Barker | Dr. Jim Ransom in Jungle Heat |
Henry Bermoy | Self |
Joan Blackman | Maile Duval in Blue Hawaii |
Mari Blanchard | Ann McRae in Jungle Heat |
Pierce Brosnan | Self |
Alfred Castillo | Self |
Bing Crosby | Tony Marvin in Waikiki Wedding |
Chad Deal | Self |
Directors
Writers
Anthony Banua-Simon, Michael Vass
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Allen | Man with yellow lei in Seven |
Bam Bam | Bus Driver in Dinocroc vs. Supergator |
Lex Barker | Dr. Jim Ransom in Jungle Heat |
Henry Bermoy | Self |
Joan Blackman | Maile Duval in Blue Hawaii |
Mari Blanchard | Ann McRae in Jungle Heat |
Pierce Brosnan | Self |
Alfred Castillo | Self |
Bing Crosby | Tony Marvin in Waikiki Wedding |
Chad Deal | Self |
Glenn Dixon | Felix Agung in Jungle Heat |
Mike Faye | Self |
Harold Fong | Coyama in Diamond Head |
Beverly Garland | Max MacKenzie in Naked Paradise |
Pamela Green | Self |
Juanita Hall | Bloody Mary in South Pacific |
Christipher Joy | T.K. in Seven |
Pua Kaholokula | Waitress in Six Days, Seven Nights |
Howard Keel | Hazard Endicott in Pagan Love Song |
John Kerr | Lt. Joseph Cable in South Pacific |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Steve Holmgren | Executive Producer |
Anthony Banua-Simon | Producer |
Michael Vass | Producer |
Sam Schild | Producer |