Okinawa Movies

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,...

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

Sasaki has had a difficult period, going through a divorce and losing his job. To take a break and start anew, Sasaki decides to visit Iriomote...

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...

Best-selling romance author Kim Jung-min travels to Okinawa, seeking inspiration and a much-needed break. From the very first day, however, his trip...

In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women...

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

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...

Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film about the global network of U.S. military bases, the...

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...

An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs...

An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa was 33 years old when she crossed the ocean to Philadelphia in order to photograph the life of her friend,...

Screened as part of the "Local Origin Project" at the 6th Okinawa International Movie Festival (March 20–24, 2014). This film is one of the...

A film documenting life in Okinawa under the domination of American military bases

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,...

During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that...

Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands...