Films by Filmmaker

Linda Hoaglund

Linda Hoaglund wrote and produced Wings of Defeat, a feature documentary about Kamikaze survivors. She also produced Wings of Defeat: Another Journey, a companion film. She was born in Kyoto, the daughter of American missionary parents, and raised in rural Japan where she attended Japanese public schools. After graduating from Yale University, she worked as a bilingual news producer for Fuji TV, the Japanese television network. She later worked as a producer for an independent American film production company. Since 1996, she has subtitled 200 Japanese films. She represents Japanese directors abroad and serves as an international producers liaison. She served as the Film Curator for the Japan Society in New York from 2005  2007 and curated Columbia Universitys 2008 Japanese Film Series, Out of the Ashes. In 2004, she received a commendation from the Foreign Minister of Japan for her work promoting Japanese film abroad. She is currently directing and producing her new film, ANPO about the cultural legacy of resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan.