Movies: Okinawa

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

In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire....

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

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 ...

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...

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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 ...

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

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....