Okinawa

During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhausting displays of energy, Sai presents a whirlwind romance between a local rocker and the daughter of a mixed American-Okinawan marriage.

38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This film contains the testimonies of some of the survivors, the story of a sculptor leading bereaved family members in creating a statue of peace, and the resistance of a group of girls against the raising of the Japanese flag at the high school graduation ceremony.

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war. Furukawa Takumi of “Backlight” is adapted and directed by Daiichi Ishino. Filmed by Yoshio Mamiya, “Smuggling of the body”. The main performers are Sachiko Sakai since the “Zoi Family”, Hiroyuki Nagato of the “Next door bride”, Shoji Yasui of the “Sentimental wife”, Takatoko of “Crying, the last Japanese fighter”, “Blue angry” Noriko Katsura, Shinzo three of "actress (1956)", Masao Oda, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Misako Tsubouchi.

1962 Japanese movie

The Love in Okinawa

M, who felt that he wasn't skilled enough in the film industry, began making his own film for the last time, aiming to have a personal achievement.

The first time a video camera went into a Utaki, a huge ruin of a U.S. military facility from the Vietnam War, a Utaki, a place where not only the locals but also people with even the slightest psychic ability never enter, a haunted house that has already created a stir on the Internet, and the ruins of a U.S. military facility from the time of the Vietnam War!

A teacher leads an unlikely team to a high school baseball championship in this sports drama. Managing a team on the verge of extinction, teacher Hiroyoshi rallies the squad on an underdog journey.

This is the "Okinawa Yabai" version of an omnibus horror film by a filmmaker based in Okinawa. A TV program crew chasing a strange phenomenon at a certain junior high school in Ginowan City encounters a real ghost and attempts to interview it, but.... Included are two works, "Okinawa Yabai" and "Accident," based on true stories.

Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), one of Japan's most famous artists, traveled to Okinawa in 1959 and 1966. The reason for these trips was his journey to rediscover Japan, in search of his identity as a Japanese person. More than 60 years ago, Okamoto captured the "poignant tenderness of life" of the people, and concluded: "It is in Okinawa that we can find the lost. In Okinawa, I rediscovered myself for the first time." This documentary goes on a journey through Okinawa led by Okamoto himself, 50 years after Okinawa's reversion to Japan.

The greatest taboo of the Battle of Okinawa were Guerrilla units composed of boy soldiers. Until now, not even the Japanese people knew the full scope of these secret troops, and survivors have been afraid to share their tragic details. Okinawa became the bulwark to protect the Japanese mainland toward the end of World War II. After the Americans landed, a violent battle ensued resulting in the loss of over 200,000 lives – many of them civilian. This documentary uncovers Japan’s deepest secrets concerning the Battle of Okinawa, and also sounds alarms about modern Japan’s recent steps toward remilitarization.

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar accident 52 years ago, in 1959, when an American jet fighter crashed into his grandfather's elementary school. He also plans to hold a peace concert.

Incarcerating the mentally ill in sheds and other private enclosures was permitted under Japanese law and continued in Okinawa until 1972. The film leads us to hear the unheard song of victims of this cruel system of social isolation.

Mizunuma is struggling to pay back his debts as always, and flies to Okinawa in an attempt to illegally sell a diamond that he confiscated from the yakuza to a jewelry broker.

In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating to the reversion of Okinawa and was particularly impressed by the handwritten documents of Kazuo Chiba, then Director of the North American First Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, unlike ordinary bureaucrats, "stood out from the crowd and seemed unique". The name of Chiba subsequently appeared in a number of documents left by former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's secretary, and the author became interested in finding out what kind of person he was.

Okinawa, the paradise of eternal summer. It is one of Japan's leading resort areas, with many sightseeing attractions such as world heritage sites related to the Ryukyu Kingdom and spectacular natural scenery. We used DJI’s flagship drone “Inspire 2” and high-quality gimbal camera “ZENMUSE X7”. With the smooth motion unique to 60p and the low noise and high color reproduction of uncompressed RAW, we captured the colorful scenery of Okinawa. This work starts from Cape Ken near the southernmost tip of the main island and heads north from the main island to Hyakumyo Beach, the birthplace of Ryukyu mythology. The azure "Maeda Cape" that even divers can see, the "Kouri Bridge" with the emerald green sea on both sides, the "Yanbara Forest" newly registered as a World Natural Heritage, and the northernmost tip of the main island "Hedo Cape", we It will be delivered to the main island of Okinawa from south to north, such as "Imperial Hotel Okinawa Shiba Cape" dyed red by the setting sun

The camera visited many actual sacred sites in Okinawa, the site of fierce fighting in World War II, where many lives were lost....

November 20, 2021 at the Okinawa Arena in Okinawa, Japan.

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