Who is Eddie Imazu?
Eddie Imazu was an art director at MGM Studios during the golden era of cinema, spanning the anti-immigrant and WWII eras when few Japanese Americans attained professional status. This website is an archive of his work and a resource for historians.
As a draftsman, associate and art director, Imazu designed movie sets at MGM for 35 years and was co-nominated for an Academy Award in 1936. A Japanese emigre and former architecture student, Imazu worked with Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, John Wayne, Yul Brynner, Robert Wagner and Marlon Brando.
