Movies: Okinawa

  • 2004
    Revival Blues

    Revival Blues (2004)

    Revival Blues

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    Revival Blues
  • 2015
    Okinawa: The Afterburn

    Okinawa: The Afterburn (2015)

    Okinawa: The Afterburn

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    On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and claim the lives of some 240,000 people. This film depicts the Battle through the eyes of Japanese a...

    Okinawa: The Afterburn
  • 2010
    The Catcher On The Shore

    The Catcher On The Shore (2010)

    The Catcher On The Shore

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    This drama depicts a boy's coming of age against the backdrop of Okinawa's food culture. Director Nakamura Ryugo was born in 1996. He made this film, his feature debut, when he was just fourteen years old. Okinawa has an old tradition of eating a goa...

    The Catcher On The Shore
  • 2012
    Karakara

    Karakara (2012)

    Karakara

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    Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decide...

    Karakara
  • 2025
    STEP OUT

    STEP OUT (2025)

    STEP OUT

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    Set against the vibrant and culturally rich backdrop of Okinawa, Step Out tells the inspiring story of Teruya, a young boy who discovers his passion for dance. Living with his dedicated single mother, Akane, and his introverted younger sister, Mai, T...

    STEP OUT
  • 1985
    Paradise View

    Paradise View (1985)

    Paradise View

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    Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly before the resumption of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa, Takamine’s film tacitly addresses the island ...

    Paradise View
  • 2024
    BABYMETAL LEGEND - 43 The Movie

    BABYMETAL LEGEND - 43 The Movie (2024)

    BABYMETAL LEGEND - 43 The Movie

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    In April 2023, SU-METAL (vocal, dance), MOAMETAL (scream, dance), and MOMOMETAL (scream, dance) entered a new stage as the new BABYMETAL, and since then, they have embarked on their largest-ever world tour, "BABYMETAL WORLD TOUR 2023-2024," visiting ...

    BABYMETAL LEGEND - 43 The Movie
  • 2017
    Battle of Okinawa in Color

    Battle of Okinawa in Color (2017)

    Battle of Okinawa in Color

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    By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island in the Pacific. Okinawa was the site of the last battle of the last great war of the 20th century, wi...

    Battle of Okinawa in Color
  • 2023
    From Okinawa with Love

    From Okinawa with Love (2023)

    From Okinawa with Love

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    An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs stationed in Okinawa. “There was love,” as the tagline reads, her photography book, 『Red Flower – The Women...

    From Okinawa with Love
  • 2021
    Green Jail

    Green Jail (2021)

    Green Jail

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    The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, who knows the secrets of "Green Jail," the notorious coal mine before World War II on Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan....

    Green Jail
  • 2024
    Ai wo Tateru ~Stand for Love~

    Ai wo Tateru ~Stand for Love~ (2024)

    Ai wo Tateru ~Stand for Love~

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    Chica, who works at an indigo dyeing workshop that has been passed down for generations in Motobu town, meets Yuto, a wealthy man, on a matchmaking app. Yuto becomes an apprentice at an indigo dyeing workshop in order to please Chica, but Yuto has a ...

    Ai wo Tateru ~Stand for Love~
  • 1991
    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa (1991)

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa

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    In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women taken as “comfort women.” Little is known about the number of casualties or their experiences. In 1989, Park Soonam ...

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa
  • 1971
    Horizon

    Horizon (1971)

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    This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan....

    Horizon
  • 2014
    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate (2014)

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate

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    Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands of miles to study the venerable martial art in its birthplace, Okinawa....

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate
  • 2009
    The First Breath of Tengan Rei

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei (2009)

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei

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    An Okinawan woman kidnaps the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl....

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei
  • 2020
    Okinawa/Santos

    Okinawa/Santos (2020)

    Okinawa/Santos

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    During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 60% of the immigrants were from Okinawa. Based on testimonies from interviewees, this film reveals th...

    Okinawa/Santos
  • 2018
    ayumi hamasaki Just the Beginning -20- TOUR 2017 at Okinawa Convention Center

    ayumi hamasaki Just the Beginning -20- TOUR 2017 at Okinawa Convention Center (2018)

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    Ayumi Hamasaki's Just the Beginning -20- tour record at Okinawa Convention Center on February 20, 2018....

    ayumi hamasaki Just the Beginning -20- TOUR 2017 at Okinawa Convention Center
  • 2024
    Ichariba Chode - versão estendida

    Ichariba Chode - versão estendida (2024)

    Ichariba Chode - versão estendida

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    Ichariba Chode - versão estendida