Okinawa Movies

Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war, Arai Taizo (Murakami Jun), the chief of police...

A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.

In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating...

Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with...

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...

Teru, a 17-year-old high school student, goes to live at a relative's house in Okinawa after the death of his mother. He becomes aware of a...

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,...

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

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

A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon...

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...

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

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

With summer vacation, Chiaki, a high school girl, is just passing each day without getting along well with her boyfriend, Masahiko and her first...

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

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...