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Feature Films

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Short Films

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as a division of the Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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We have offered support and assistance for about 900 movies,

Other

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Location Map

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Index

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About Okinawa Film Office
The Okinawa Film Office was established in April 2003

dramas, and television programs. We also have a subsidy program,“The Foreign Production Support Program”,
which actively supports international co-productions
for shooting in Okinawa.

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©1998 TimeWarp Inc.

Away with Words©1990 Shochiku Co., Ltd./BANDAI VIDUAL CO., LTD.

Boiling Point
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Asano, raised on Taketomi island, Okinawa, has excellent recall.

NATUREA filling station attendant named Masaki plays for a sandlot baseball team called the

However, living in the city causes wear and tear on his brain, and he

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becomes forgetful. He makes for the ocean and Okinawa, but winds“Eagles,” but minus special talent for the game he finds himself more or less shunned by

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his teammates. Back at the gas station Masaki is told by a mobster to wash his car. But

his way to Hong Kong on the way. While drifting through the city, he

FAMILYarrives at a certain gay bar. The azure sofa at the back of the bar islike a peacock’s feathers, comfortable and rich. Asano decides to

Masaki fails to do a good job and the incensed gangster punches him. Disaster has struck
Masaki and his gas station. Takashi owns a snack bar called “Eagle,”and he is an ardent

FAMILYfan of the Eagles. A former gangster himself, Takashi decides to do something to save
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call the sofa home.

Masaki and his filling station. Masaki and his friend Kazuo obtain a gun in Okinawa and

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return to Tokyo. There they discover Takashi is missing. Together with Eagles players
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Masaki goes to the mobsters’ den to see what is happning. The two Eagles members are

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soon beaten half to death, only Masaki gets away. He takes an oil truck from his filling
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Directed and Written by Takeshi Kitano

Directed and Written by Christopher Doyle

Producer : Hisao Nabeshima, Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida

Producer : Hiroyuki Tokimori

Production Company : Bandai Visual Company, OFFICE KITANO INC.,

Production Company : TimeWarp Inc.

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station and drives it straight into the gangsters’ lair.

Right Vision Entertainment, Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Sales Company : TimeWarp Inc.

Contact

Sales Company : Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Contact

Starring : Tadanobu Asano, Kevin Sherlock, Xu Mei-Jing etc

Time Warp Inc.

Starring : Masahiko Ono, Yuriko Ishida, Takahito Iguchi, Minoru Isuka,

Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Completion Year : 1998

Phone : 81-3-5766-6671

Running Time : 90min

E-mail : info@timewarp.co.jp

Bengal, Beat Takeshi etc
Completion Year : 1990

Running Time : 98min

Phone : +81- 3- 5550-1623
E-mail : ibd@shochiku.co.jp
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©2010 "The Catcher on the Shore" Production Committee

The Catcher on the Shore©2015 ” Chaske’ s Journey” Production Committee

Chasuke’ s Journey
NATUREA city boy Hiroto gets on the bus alone and heads to Nakijin Village

NATUREThe heavens are permeated by a white fog, with a space that seems to extend

in Yanbaru to spend the winter break at his grandfather's place.

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There he quickly finds his place, hanging out with his cousin Ryuya,

forever. It is here that innumerable directors congregate in white costume, working

CULTUREover scrolls of paper and writing the scripts to the lives of people below. Those on

and taking care of the two family's goats. One day, one of them has

FAMILYgone missing... . The Catcher on the Shore is a beautiful story on
childhood and friendship.

earth lead their lives in tune to the screenplays written for them, carrying out theirfates. Chasuke, the flunkey, serves tea to the directors and looks on with interest at

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the way people live their lives as a product of these written scripts. He takes a deep
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interest in Yuri Araki, a sweet, pure, and soft-spoken girl. That interest begins to

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resemble affection. Chasuke discovers that Yuri’s fate is to be hit by a car and die.
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no say in the writing of the scripts themselves, must descend to earth and keep her
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Directed and Written by Ryugo Nakamura

Producer : Masayuki Mori

Production Company : SUGAR TRAIN, Inc.

ProductionCompany : “Chasuke’s Journey” Production Committee

Starring : Munekazu Uehara, Seima Gima, Yayoi Shiroma,
Kenta Nakaza etc

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Directed and Written by SABU

Producer : Yuichi Ide
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out of harm’s way… .

Sales Company : SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. / OFFICE KITANO INC.
Contact

SUGAR TRAIN, Inc.

Starring : Ken’ici Matsuyama, Ito Ono, Ren Osugi, Yusuke Iseya,
Hiromasa Taguchi etc

Contact

Films BoutiqueCompletion Year : 2010

Tel. +81-98-882-3123

Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +49-30-69537850

Running Time : 84min

E-mail : staff@sugar-train.com

Running Time : 105min

E-mail : contact@filmsboutique.com
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©2011” Cheers from Heaven” Film Committee

Cheers from Heaven©2004 SIGLOThe Crying Wind
NATUREA drama based on a true story. The film depicts the life of Hikaru

NATUREThe stage is Okinawa in summer, on an island where strong winds create

Nakasone, who opened a music studio and made it available free of

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charge to high school bands while running a take-out lunch shop in

mysterious sounds called “Fuon.” Above the cliffs by the bay is a cemetery,

CULTUREand placed there is a single skull. When the wind blows through a hole

Motobu town, Okinawa. Hikaru Oshiro, who owns a small lunch

FAMILYshop right next to a high school, learns that his young customers do
not have a place to practice their music. An obliging person, hecreated from a gunshot, it creates a sound.
This skull, known as the “The Crying God,” was believed to be the protector

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builds a music studio in his garage and lets the students use it freeof charge. Before long, the students grow very fond of him. Then,

One summer day, some youngsters play a prank with the “The Crying God.”HISTORY

That day on, the sounds of the wind cease, and the peaceful days on the
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he falls to an illness.

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island begin to be disturbed… .
The memories of those who live on the island, those came from outside, and

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Directed by Makoto Kumazawa

Written by Shun Medoruma

Producer : Yoshiko Makabe, Keiichi Shigematsu, Hirohisa Mukuju

Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami

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Written by Masaya Ozaki, Kimiko Ueno
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those who died on the island overlap to reveal the mystery of the “Fuon”.

Production Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Sales Company : Asmik Ace Inc.

Contact

Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Contact

Starring : Hiroshi Abe, Mimula, Nanami Sakuraba etc

Asmik Ace Inc.

Starring : Muneo Uema, Haruko Kato, Miho Tsumiki etc

Siglo, Ltd.

Completion Year : 2011

Phone : +81-3-6760-8105

Completion Year : 2004

Phone : +81-3-5343-3101

Running Time : 114min

E-mail : intl@asmik-ace.co.jp

Running Time : 106min

E-mail : siglo@cine.co.jp
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©2013 TOEI VIDEO/AMAZON LATERNA

Dancing Karate Kid©2007 “Dolphin Blue” Production Committee, Photo by Rinko Kawauchi

Dolphin Blue
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Action film fusing the traditional Okinawan traditional performing

Fuji, the bottlenose dolphin, is the most popular member of the Okinawa

art of Ryukyu dance with Ryukyu karate. Magnificent battles

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unfold, incorporating legends passed down within Ryukyu karate

Churaumi Aquarium, one of the biggest aquariums in the world, which is

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visited by 2.5 million people a year. Fuji, who has been at the aquarium for 30

and historical facts. Starts action actor Joey, a dancer raised in the

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U.S. Also features numerous performances by professional

years, is a “Big Mother” who has given birth to and raised 3 children. One
day, her tail fin is destroyed by a mysterious disease and has to be cut off.

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But that leads to the start of the “prosthetic fin project,” which involves thefighters. Ken Sawamura is a dancer travelling the world. Ken
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arrives in Okinawa, and decides to crash at the home of an elderly
gentleman he happens to meet. However, this elderly man is in fact

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cooperation of the aquarium staff and many other people. Witness thecreation of this summer’s best story about youth, depicting the coming to

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Iwao Shinjo, traditional Ryukyu karate grand master and expert
dancer.

age of a boy and a girl, the exchange between humans and dolphins, joy andDRAMAgrief, and last but not least, love, all in the scenery of Okinawa.
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Directed by Tetsu Maeda

Written by Norio Enomoto

Written by Sumino Kawashima, Minoru Matsumoto, Tetsu Maeda

Producer : Fuyuhiko Nishi

Producer : Yoshitaka Hori, Katsumi Mochida, Tetsujiro Yamagami

Production Company : Amazon Laterna Co,Ltd., TOEI VIDEO

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Production Company : “Dolphin Blue” Production Committee

Sales Company : NIKKATSU Corporation

Contact

Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Contact

Starring : Joey, Yui Koike, Akihiko Yagi, Shingo Koyasu

AMAZON LATERNA Co.,Ltd.

Starring : Kenichi Matsuyama, Mitsuki Takahata, Maki Nishiyama etc

Siglo, Ltd.

Completion Year : 2013

Phone: +81-3- 5700- 5600

Completion Year : 2007

Phone : +81-3-5343-3101

Running Time : 78min

E-mail: info@amalate.co.jp

Running Time : 105min

E-mail : siglo@cine.co.jp
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© 2009 "FURIMUN in Okinawa" Production Committee

FURIMUN in Okinawa©1996/2006 G.G.S

GAMA - Gettou no Hana
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Eisho, who works on a pig farm in Okinawa, likes to mess around doing silly
things with his friends Masaru, with whom there is quite an age gap, andFusa Miyazato is a teacher of Okinawan dance who serves as principal of a
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Hitoshi. One day, Eisho finds himself falling in love at first sight with the new
American dancer at his favorite strip club in Koza city, whose name is Orange.
However, he is quickly approached by an American soldier called Max, who has

FAMILYbombardment robbed her one by one of a dozen and more of her family and kin,
and at the end only mother and daughter came miraculously alive out of the cave
U.S. military. Jumbled together in the cave were civilians and Japanese soldiers,
the truth of what she witnessed in that cave. As much an she would like to, Fusa

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Written by Tsuyoshi Shima, Yuten Tachibana
Producer : Yutaka Umisedo
Production Company : G.G.S Inc.

Sales Company : KADOKAWA CORPORATION

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Directed by Yutaka Osawa

Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

AKINA

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Producer : Gen Uchida, Noriaki Kikui, Keisuke Konishi, Akihiko Yose

Starring : Gori, Masao Teruya, Daisuke Moromizato, Bobby Ologun,

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cannot bring herself to speak of that terrible secret she keeps closed up inside.
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Written by Gori, Yoshikazu Sugiyama

FAMILYand there unfolded an abominable tragedy. She has never, though, told anyone
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tested when after the fight is over, he realizes what is really important to him.

Directed by GoriCULTUREat Mabuni point into which they had been driven. But their enemy was not only the
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his friends, and for himself, Eisho gives all he has. But there is also Rimi, thenurse to think about – she has always watched over Eisho. Eisho’s resolution iskindergarten that she runs in a seaside village. She is a typical example of one ofthose of her generation of Okinawans who experienced the hell of battle. The

also fallen in love with her, and the two men start fighting to win her love. They
decide to go one on one, with the winner getting Orange. Fighting for Orange, for

NATURE

Sales Company : G.G.S Inc.
Contact

Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Starring : Mai Asagiri, Tomi Taira, Jiei Kabira, Jun Kunimura,
Hiroyuki Okita etc

Contact

G.G.S Inc.

Completion Year : 2009

Phone : +81-3-3209-8300

Completion Year : 1996

Phone : +81-3-3560-2250

Running Time : 97min

E-mail : isagawa.ikue@yoshimoto.co.jp

Running Time : 109min

E-mail : ggs@gettounohana.com
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©2010 “A GOOD HUSBAND” Film Committee

A GOOD HUSBAND©2013 TOEI VIDEO/AMAZON LATERNA

Halser Acre The Movie Acres
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Ten years into his marriage, Shunsuke Kitami , who once had a thriving career asa still photographer, now mostly picks fights with his wife, Sakura. Breaking his

Halser Acre means farmer clan in the Okinawan dialect.Hosaku and his
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marriage vow to Sakura to “Have children and always be faithful”, he cheats
constantly. Sakura , who is desperate to have a child, finally erupts and rightbefore Christmas, drags her reluctant husband on a vacation to Okinawa.

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hope through our actions. It’s time to rise up!

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Directed by Tsukasa Kishimoto
Written by Yuki Yamada, Tsukasa Kishimoto
Producer : Yoshi Takenouchi, Hisaya Nozaki, Manabu Kaneko, Souichi Takayama,

Sales Company : TOEI COMPANY,LTD.

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In her time of crisis, Haru is joined by Hella and Comer as the Acres are

Production Company : “A GOOD HUSBAND” Film Committee

Azusa Fusato

Starring: Etsushi Toyokawa, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Asami Mizukawa,Contact

Sales Company : Ritz Productions Inc.

Gaku Hamada, Yu Shirota, Kanji Tsuda, Kaoru Okunuki, Haruka Igawa,

TOEI COMPANY,LTD.

Starring : AKINA, Tomoji Yamashiro, Shingo Chinen, Kenta Nakaza,

Renji Ishibashi

Phone:+81-3-3535-7621
Running Time : 131min

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welcome Haru. Haru is at a loss of what to do, then a loud sound howling

Producer : Kazuhito Amano, Tatsuya Kunimatsu

Completion Year : 2010

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compared to her younger sister, Ai. She accompanies Satsuki to her village.

called into battle once again. Is it worth fighting for? Despair can become
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Written by Chihiro Itoonly from her small stature, but more so from her inexperience as a Halser

through the woods heralds the arrival of two monsters, Dobu and Chili.
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While she’s gone, Shunsuke invites Ranko, an aspiring actress to his house … .

Directed by Isao Yukisada

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Satsuki’s grandfather, who leads the development project, does not
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interest in the photo assignments his assistant, Makoto and Bunta, the friendly
drag queen bring to him. Fed up with Shunsuke, Sakura goes on a trip by herself.

granddaughters Haru and Ai are the descendants of Halser Acre, who havealways lived in harmony with the soil. Haru has a complex stemming not

About one year later, Shunsuke has mysteriously lost his will to work and is living
a self-indulgent life off his quickly dwindling savings. Shunsuke shows no

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E-mail: international@toei.co.jp

Production Company : Acre Film

Shinichiro Chinen etc
Completion Year : 2015

Running Time : 93min

Contact

Ritz Productions Inc.
Phone:+81- 50- 7535-1000
E-mail: acres@ritz.bz
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©2002 “HOTEL HIBISCUS” Partners© KADOKAWA 1990

HOTEL HIBISCUS

Haruka naru Koshien
NATUREThe year is 1964. Rubella, having devastated the United States,

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Mieko, a spirited third grader and somewhat of an oddball, lives with her family in a

makes its way to Okinawa, where infected women give birth to

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several children with vision defects. Fifteen years later, thesmall hotel in Okinawa, called the Hotel Hibiscus. Only one room is available for guests

CULTUREto stay in; the rest make up the living quarters of the family. Their little family is madestudents of Kitashiro Ro Gakko, a school newly built for those

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children, decide to launch a baseball club amidst protests andconsternation from those around them. Now, the summer of theirtalents include the sanshin, a traditional Okinawan instrument, as well as billiards,

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Kenji, the older brother who is half black, Sachiko, the older sister who is half white,
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graduating year, they embark on a challenge to make the junior

up of Mom, who supports the family by working in a bar, Dad, an easygoing man whose

leagues at Koshien Stadium.

and grandma, who is never seen without a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.

HISTORY“International” is definitely one of the ways you could describe the family. Mieko’s days
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are very busy. For one thing, Notojima, the only guest who ever stays at the hotel, plays

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games with her every day. On top of that, her best friends, Gappai and Mintama, take
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Directed by Yutaka Osawa

Mieko often makes friends during her adventures, and this summer was no exception!

Directed by Yuji Nakae

Production Company : Futabasha Publishers Ltd.

Producer : Shiro Sasaki, Isao Takenaka, Kazumi Kawashiro, Kenji Takahara,

Written by Motoko Nakae, Yuji Nakae

Kazushi Yoshikawa

Sales Company : KADOKAWA CORPORATION
Hitoshi Ueki etc

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her on adventures to find Kijimuna, Okinawan spirits who live in the forest.

Contact

Production Company : OFFICE SHIROUS

Contact

KADOKAWA CORPORATION

Starring : Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo, Tomi Taira, Masao Teruya,

OFFICE SHIROUS

Completion Year : 1990

Phone : +81-3-3238-8729

Running Time : 104min

E-mail : inquiry@kadokawa-pictures.co.jp

Seijin Noborikawa etc
Completion Year : 2003

Running Time : 92min

Phone : +81-3-6411-0088
E-mail : info@shirous.com
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How to make a Penguin Pair

© 1999 BANDAI VISUAL, TBS,TOKYO FM, OFFICE KITANO.

Ikinai
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Ayumi works as a Freelance writer in Tokyo. She meets a Chinese

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December 30, 1997, Naha Airport. Aragaki, a tour guide for a two-day,photographer named Gyoko in Mainland China and gets married to him. One

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day, the company, which the Chinese photographer works for, goes bankrupt.
As the result, he loses the job. In order to cheer her husband up, she takes him
to Ishigaki Island. In there, they are fascinated by beautiful nature, hospitality,

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Yashiro, to arrive. The other tourists, what few of them there are, are
FAMILYand tasty food. Therefore, they decide to move to Ishigaki Island. As the newresidents, they do not know what to do there. Fortunately, they have the same

three-night tour of Okinawa’s sunrises, is waiting for his last tour client,aboard the bus. Just before departing, a girl calls out to Aragaki – hername is Mitsuki. It seems she has come in place of her uncle, who was

FAMILYslated to take part in the tour. Thus, the group of just thirteen people,
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interest as “food”. They decide to use the local ingredients to produce theMitsuki now aboard, leave for the bus tour. As it turns out, this tour is

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actually an assassination tour, and the members aboard have vast sums

brand new chili oil. Even though they make the effort to create the best chili oil

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of life insurance! That is, everyone but Mitsuki… .

they thought, no one wants to buy it. However, no matter what the difficulty is,they have already made up their mind and walk together.

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Producer : Masayuki Mori, Yasushi Tuge, Takio Yoshida
Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL, TBS,TOKYO FM,

Written by Atsushi Asada, Katsutoshi Hirabayashi

KADOKAWA CORPORATION, OFFICE KITANO INC.

Producer : Yusuke Wakabayashi

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Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Sales Company : OFFICE KITANO INC.

Production Company : dub

Contact

Sales Company : PRESIDIO CORPORATION

Ritz Productions Inc.

Starring : Eiko Koike, Kingone Wang, Motoki Fukami etc

Phone : +81-50-7535-1000

Completion Year : 1998

Phone : +81-3-5572-7099

Completion Year : 2012

E-mail : pengin_ritz@ritz.bz

Running Time : 100min

E-mail : nakano@office-kitano.co.jp

Running Time : 90min

Starring : Dankan, Nanako Okouchi, Toshinori Omi,
Ippei Souda etc

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OFFICE KITANO INC.

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©2013 KURUWA. llc.

It was so bright I couldn’ t see it.
Slowly I blinked and blinked again.

KAMUI
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NATUREIn 17th century Japan, Kamui is born an outcast in a rigidly hierarchical society. He has
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Miyuki, who has lost her parents, comes alone to an island. She awakens

only one prayer, to become stronger, to be accepted as a real human being. Soon Kamui

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Shiori has been in ill health since birth, and covers up her fragility byplaying the thankless role of a coarse and vulgar person. This led

others. Growing to despise these lethal laws of the ninja, he becomes a fugitive, always
on the run… .

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under the pretense of medical care. The people of the island, flying in theface of progressive modern society, still maintain an idyllic life, with aOn this island, frozen in time, the pure Shiori feels somehow constrained.

made in Japan. Taking place on land and in the oceans, Kamui, will sure to fascinate the

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Written by Kankuro Kudo
Producer : Nozomu Enoki

Producer : Hiroaki Morooka, Kentaro Suzuki, Ryosuke Aizaka

Production Company : KAMUI Film Partners

Production Company : KURUWA. Llc.

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Directed by Yoichi Sai

Directed and Written by Kei Ikeda

Sales Company : Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Sales Company : JAPAN MUSIC SYSTEM, STEP UP RECORDS

Contact

Starring : Airi Kido, Miyuri Arai, Nobushige Suematsu, Takashi Yuki,

KURUWA. Llc.

Running Time : 90min

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worldwide audience with the amazing action and the dramatic fate that Kamui faces.

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Even with her weak constitution, she is still becoming a woman… .

action title now comes to the big screen. With the top staffs and cast from the Japanesefilm industry, this entertainment adventure is one of the largest budgeted films everDRAMAsole windmill as their only source of electricity.

Completion Year : 2013

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Based on a legendary comic book from Sampei Shirato from the 1970’s, this hard-core

Shiori’s parents to send her to live on the island in the care of Azusa

Naoko Watanabe etc

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becomes a ninja in order to live. Once a ninja, he must use the skills to harm and killon the small wave-rocked boat to see Shiori waving a flag on the beach.

19© 2009 KAMUI Film Partners

Starring : Kenichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hideaki Ito,
Koichi Sato etc

Contact

Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Phone : +81-3-3304-4277

Completion Year : 2009

Phone : +81- 3- 5550-1623

E-mail : kuruwa.llc@gmail.com

Running Time : 120min

E-mail : ibd@shochiku.co.jp
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©2012 Karakara Partners & Zuno Films

Karakara©CINEMA KUMIODORI Production Committee

The Kumiodori “Nidou Tekiuchi”
NATUREA road movie about cultivating friendship across both nationality andcircumstances, as a man and woman who meet in Okinawa go on a journey

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Kumiodori, a traditional Japanese performance, has been passed down to through
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together. It is directed by Claude Gagnon, whose film Kenny was an

generations. This performance, called “Nido Tekiuchi”, set in ancient Ryukyu war,

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was first performed in 1719. In the performance, the Tsurumatsu and Kamechiyointernational hit in the 1980s.
Honored in two categories including an audience award at 36th Montreal

FAMILYWorld Film Festival, Karakara tells the story about friendship across bothnationality and circumstances as man and woman who meet in Okinawa.

FAMILYand important intangible cultural heritage by the Japanese Government. You will

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enjoy their beautiful stage costumes and the way they deliver their lines in archaic
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they hit it off immediately. However, the next day, Junko shows up after
being punched by her husband.

Amawari. We decided to adapt this performance “Nidou Tekiuchi” for the screen sothat you can enjoy “Kumiodori”, deemed a part of UNESCO’s list of world heritage

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Pierre, a retired university professor from Canada, visits Okinawa for a
Qigong retreat. There he happens to meet Junko, japanese housewife, andbrothers disguised themselves as dancers, planning to avenge their father on

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Ryukyu language.
Please enjoy the film and experience the history of Ryukyu Kingdom at the height

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Producer : Naoya Oshiro

Starring : Seigi Tamagusuku, Arakaki Satoru, Naoya Ishikawa,

Sales Company : Kukuru Vision Inc.

Contact

Starring : Gabriel Arcand, Youki Kudoh, Megumi Tomita

Kukuru Vision Inc.

Completion Year : 2012

Tel : +81 98 996 5156

Completion Year : 2013

Phone : +81-98-860-7704

Running Time : 104min

E-mail : takako@kukuruvision.com

Running Time : 64min

E-mail : h_komiya@okw.jtb.jp

Shigeo Miyagi etc

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Leaving on the 15th Spring
NATURE“Shushin Kaneiri” was the first Kumio dori play to be shown at the

NATURE

Yuna is a 15-year-old girl lives in Minami Daito Island with her father, Toshiharu who runs

Court of King Sho Kei. It was presented to a Chinese envoy in 1719.

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Wakamatsu is a handsome young man who asks a woman fora sugarcane field. Minami Daito Island is located approximately 360km east from thelodging after losing his way. She desperately falls in love with him,

FAMILYbut the love is not mutual and Wakamatsu’s dissent causes thewoman to transform into a demon. This play was inspired by the Nohgraduate from junior high school. Next spring, Yuna will move to Naha to enter a highschool same as everyone and live with her mother, Akemi. But Yuna is worried about her

In the cinema production, the entire play is accompanied by

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again some day.
Yuna is a member of borodino mu-su-me, they play a sanshin and sing a traditional island

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subtitles, and short movies have been added before and after theplay, as to give the viewer a better understanding.

songs. In the island’s custom, girls sing “Abayoi”, a song for farewell and giving theirDRAMAgratitude to their parent when they leave the island.
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Directed by Naoya Oshiro

Directed and Written by Yasuhiro Yoshida

Producer : Naoya Oshiro

Producer : Yasuhiro Masaoka , Hiroshi Higa, Takeshi Sawa

Production Company : JTB Okinawa, Urasoe City

Production Company : Amuse, OKINAWA EIZOU CENTER,
Contact

DIGITAL FRONTIER Inc.

Contact

JTB Okinawa

Sales Company : Bitters End,Inc.

Bitters End,Inc.

Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +81-98-860-7704

Starring : Ayaka Miyoshi, Shinobu Otake, Kaoru Kobayashi

Tel : +81-3-3462-0345

Running Time : 60min

E-mail : h_komiya@okw.jtb.jp

Completion Year : 2013

E-mail : info@bitters.co.jp

Satoru Arakaki

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play “Dojo-Ji.”

Starring : Shinji Kinjo, Yoshikazu Sanabe, Jinichi Uza, Kyugen Oyadomari,CULTURE

Okinawa Island. Since there is no high school, students have to leave the island when they

Running Time : 114min

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The Lightning Tree

© 2009 "Midsummer's Okinawan Dream"partners

A Midsummer’s Okinawan Dream
NATURE

Peasants from the village of Seta, named for its main family, avoid the woods around the nearby
mountain because they say a goblin lives there. The goblin, we find after she drives two of themaway, is a girl, Rai, who lives deep in the forest with a man she calls ‘Father’. In far-off Edo, theShogun’s son Narimichi is acting erratically. His mother was mentally unstable, he is subject tofits of temper, complains he cannot sleep, and it is decided he will travel to the village of hisaide, Seta, for a period of recuperation. Pursuing an errant falcon into the woods, he encounters
Rai, and finds out that she is not a goblin. She tells him not to come back. ‘Father’ meanwhile
makes a deal with a samurai from a neighboring clan to kill Narimichi, and thus bring disasteron the village. Rai saves Narimichi from him. Rai, we now learn, is really ‘Yu’, the sister of Seta.
‘Father’, who was a samurai belonging to the neighboring clan, was supposed to kill her when
she was a baby, but kidnapped her and fled into the forest instead. Yu now returns to her village
home, where as an excuse to get back into the woods she offers to be Narimichi’s guide. The
two fall in love, and Narimichi swears he will come back for her. There is a problem, however.
Back in Edo, his father has a bride picked out for him... .
Directed by Ryuichi Hiroki

NATURE

After becoming worn out with her relationship in Tokyo, Yuriko returns to her home
CULTUREisland. She has many fond memories in Yugafu Island, where they celebrate

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Kijimuna, spirits who live in the forest and watch over the island. Ever since she was
FAMILYa young girl, Yuriko was the only child who could talk to the odd little Kijimun called
Majiru. “Don’ t forget about me, even when you get older. I’ ll always be waiting here

FAMILYfor you.” Majiru never forgot that promise with Yuriko, waiting day after day for her
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to return. It was Majiru’s duty to watch over the island and Yuriko.
When she arrives to the island, Yuriko is faced with trouble, like the village mayor

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who is trying to develop the island for his own profits, and her ex-boyfriend, who

DRAMAchased her all the way to the island.
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Majiru wants to help Yuriko, so together they drink a “secret love remedy”, whichmakes them giddy. Majiru has always been there to watch over Yuriko, and will

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continue to do so forever more.

Written by Sachiko Tanaka, Masato Kato

Producer : Takashi Hirano
Production Company : “The Lightning Tree” Production Committee

Contact

Directed by Yuji Nakae

Sales Company : Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (TBS)Tokyo Broadcasting System Television,

Producer : Shiro Sasaki, Kazumi Kawashiro, Takeo Hisamatsu, etc

Contact

Starring : Masaki Okada, Yu Aoi, Keisuke Koide, Akira Emoto,Inc. (TBS) Global Business Department.

Production Company : OFFICE SHIROUS

OFFICE SHIROUS

Phone : +81-3-5571-3085

Starring : Yuki Shibamoto, Honami Kurashita, Tomi Taira, Susumu Taira etc

Phone : +81-3-6411-0088

E-mail : prosales@tbs.co.jp

Completion Year : 2009

E-mail : info@shirous.com

Saburo Tokito etc
Completion Year : 2010
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Written by Motoko Nakae, Yuji Nakae

Running Time : 105min

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Nabbie’s Love

© 2006"NADA SOU SOU-Tears for You" Production Committee

Nada Sou Sou - Tears For You
NATUREAs Nanako returns to her parent’s home on a little island in
Okinawa, her grandfather and grandmother Nabbie give her a

CULTUREwarm welcome. However, the grandfather was equally welcoming
to a young man that arrived on the same boat, even letting him stay

FAMILYat their house. Furthermore, it turns out that the suspicious
gentleman who also was on the same boat was a man named

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SunRa . In the distant past, this very man had promised
engagement with Nabbie, but a prophecy that advised against their

DRAMAmarriage had torn their relationship apart… .

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2001, Spring – Naha City, Okinawa. Yotaro drives through the lively city streets on a beat up
motorbike. The cheer of the 21-year old young man is in keeping with the bright blue sky
above. He is particularly happy today, because his younger sister, Kaori, has passed herhigh school entrance exam and is about to move in with him. Flashback to 1988 – a town
close to a US air base. Amid the bustle of the untidy shops, Mitsue beams as she hurries tomeet her lover. She drags her 8 year-old son, Yotaro, by the hand. 3 year-old Kaoru stands
next to her jazz musician father. The unrelated brother and sister meet for the first time.
Unfortunately, the family’s happiness does not last. Their father abandons them and Mitsue
is distraught… . In spring of 1991, an exhausted Mitsue breathes her last breath and thechildren are taken in by their grandmother. Mitsue’s final words to her son… . “You must
always take care of Kaoru…”. What lies in store for Yotaro and Kaori as they embark on a
new chapter of life together? A poignant and unforgettable movie experience… . let thetears flow, your never-ending tears.

Written by Motoko Nakae, Yuji Nakae

Directed by Nobuhiro Doi

Producer : Shiro Sasaki, Isao Takenaka

Producer : Kazuya Hamana, Atsushi Nasuda, Junichi Shindo

Production Company : OFFICE SHIROUS
Starring : Naomi Nishida, Jun Murakami, Tomi Taira, Susumu Taira,FAMILYHISTORYDRAMA

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Production Committee

Tokyo Broadcasting System Television,

OFFICE SHIROUS

Sales Company : Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. (TBS)Inc. (TBS) Global Business Department.

Completion Year : 1999

Phone : +81-3-6411-0088

Starring : Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masami Nagasawa etc

Phone : +81-3-5571-3085

Running Time : 92min

E-mail : info@shirous.com

Completion Year : 2006

E-mail : prosales@tbs.co.jp

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The Profound Desire of the Gods
NATURE

Shokichi, a nineteen year-old college student, was born in a

To buid a new factory, a technician goes to Kurage Island, the southpigshed on Maja Island, the island of the gods. He meets Wakako,

CULTUREthe proprietress of a bar with emotional scars that will not heal.

most island, to visit the elder of the island.

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Wakako’s spirit leaves her body, and she faints. Shokichi resolves
to go to Maja Island, a sacred place where the gods congregate,

breaking the island’s rules. Meanwhile, the technician is

FAMILYobstructed from pulling water from the forbidden well by theisland’s inhabitants, and he falls in love with the island’s daughter

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and say a prayer to recover her soul. He rallies Wakako’s friends,
and the four of them begin their journey to the island.

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Toriko. The technician falls deeper and deeper into the swamp thatis this island’s attractiveness… .

Directed by Yoichi Sai

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Directed by Shohei Imamura

Producer : Takenori Sento

Written by Shohei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe

Production Company : Suncent Cinema Works

Producer : Masanori Yamanoi
Production Company : Imamura Production

Sales Company : WOWOW Inc.
Starring : Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yoshie Hayasaka, Michiko Ameku,

CULTUREIn the island, Nekichi was chained up and trapped inside a rock for

One day, while spending time in the bar, a pig suddenly bursts in.

Contact

Sales Company : Nikkatsu Corporation

Contact

WOWOW Inc.

Starring : Rentaro Mikuni, Choichiro Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama etc

Nikkatsu Corporation

Completion Year : 1999

Phone : +81-3-4330-8169

Completion Year : 1968

Phone : +81-3-5689-1014

Running Time : 118min

E-mail : aya.takagawa@wowow.co.jp

Running Time : 175min

E-mail : international@nikkatsu.co.jp

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Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie- The Seven Mabui -NATURE

Uruma, a young actor who acts as a side character in a hero show, has no athletic

CULTURE© 2007 RYUKYU COWBOY FILMS

Ryukyu Cowboy Films :“See Me ?” “Happy ☆ Pizza”“Under The Grandpa’ s Umbrella”

NATURECULTUREskills and cannot even do a backflip. His dream is to star as the hero, but his lack ofwill makes him a nuisance to other members on the show. One day during rehearsal,

FAMILYguidebooks in three short pieces. This is the first film of its kind to

the force of a throw makes the Mabui (spirit) of Ryujin Mabuyer to enter his soul.
Ryujin Mabuyer is the legendary hero who protected the people of Okinawa from a

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culture and independence of the islands.

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A film brimming with the delight of subcultures perfect for evenbecause the evil Majimun have secretly returned from their eternal sleep, to turn
Okinawa into their own kingdom? They try to take back Okinawa from humans, whoshare Okinawa’s unique spirit and core in the form of entertainment.
The directors, working in Okinawa, explore the unique and profoundgroup of villains called Majimun by entering a young person’s soul and turning theminto Ryujin Mabuyer. But why did Ryujin Mabuyer choose to come back now? Is it

FAMILYThis film shares the side of Okinawa that doesn’ t get into the

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those who aren’ t fans of Okinawa.

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have disregarded the nature on the islands.

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Directed and Written by Hayashi Toma, Shuhei Fukunaga, Naoya Oshiro

Written by Mitsunori Fukuhara

Producer : Yuichi Ide

Producer : Yuichi Koyano, Hidehisa Yamada, Shinpei Yamagiwa

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Production Company : SUGAR TRAIN Inc.

Production Company : Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie Film Partners

Contact

Sales Company : SUGAR TRAIN Inc.

Contact

Sales Company : CHRONICLE CO., LTD.

CHRONICLE CO., LTD.

Starring : Sachiko Nakata, Takako Kouchi, Albert, Katchan, Airi Shinjo

SUGAR TRAIN Inc.

Starring : Shintaro Yamada, ISSA, Saichiko Judy Fukumoto etc

Phone : +81-3-5786-7640

Completion Year : 2007

Tel : +81-98-882-3123

Completion Year : 2012

E-mail : s.yamagiwa@chronicle.ne.jp

Running Time : 89min

E-mail : staff@sugar-train.com

Running Time : 96min

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A Song of Gondola
NATURE

Murakawa is no an ordinary gangster. He is a very aggressive and violent one. He is as
reckless as a yakuza, and he’s gained quite a bit of influence. But he’s getting tired ofRyo, a middle school student in the village of Chatan on the main island of
CULTURE

his way of life and wants to move on. Prodded by his boss Kitajima, and his lieutenant
Takahashi,Murakawa, he is sent to Okinawa to help a gangster group that happens to be
struggling against another mob. Once in Okinawa, however, Murakawa realizes that he

FAMILYplay on white sand, where it would seem that time had stopped, when all at once… .

One day, Ryo decides to learn karate after becoming captivated by a girl’sbeautiful performance at a local Karate dojo, but for some reason his

FAMILYthe dojo in secret, where he meets the young American boy, Kevin, andHISTORY

gradually they begin to get to know each other more and more.
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few surviving members decide to lay low in an abandoned house alongside the beach.
There, beneath a cobalt sky and the blazing sun, Murakawa and his men are innocently

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father is against it. His childhood friend Nagi helps him start practicing at
HISTORY

death, several of Murakawa’s henchmen go home. Next there is an impromptu gunfightin a bar and Murakawa loses more of his followers. In the wake of it, Murakawa and his

Okinawa, has lived with his imposing father and sister Kanako, who has aweak constitution, since his mother died when he was young.

should not have come so far. His arrival provokes the opposing gang, and two of
Murakawa’s cohorts are murdered by a dynamite explosion in their office. Afraid of

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Before long, Ryo comes to learn the secret past of his father’s youth,

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leading him to make an important decision… .
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Producer : Nozomu Enoki
Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Directed and Written by Takeshi Kitano

Producer : Masayuki Mori, Hisao Nabeshima, Takio Yoshida

Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL CO., LTD. Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Contact

Starring : Beat Takeshi, Aya Kokumai, Masanobu Katsumura,

Shochiku Co., Ltd.

Completion Year : 1993
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Starring : Kenta Kamiya, Shinichi Tsuha, Kirara Kakinohana,

Sales Company : Shochiku Co., Ltd.
Susumu Terashima, Ren Osugi etc
Running Time : 93min

Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.
Haruka Toubaru, Syo-n Fukushi, Yuji Shiroma,

Contact

Koji Nakamoto, Yuna Matsuda

Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Phone : +81-3-5550-1623

Completion Year : 2010

Phone : +81-3-3209-8256

E-mail : ibd@shochiku.co.jp

Running Time : 99min

E-mail: uno.tomomi@yoshimoto.co.jp
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Sunshine Ahead
NATURE

After losing his wife in an accident, a man decides to kill himself.

NATURE

This is a true story about a man who ran headlong to achieve his dream, and his

However, when he is unable to go through with his plan, he feels

CULTUREdrawn to Koza town, and sets out on a journey.

wife who watched over him beaming. Kenji Kinjo, whose sole interest has been

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marine life since his childhood, makes up his mind to marry his childhood friend,

Upon arrival, his wife appears and he finds himself in the town

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where she died.
He meets the woman who is controlled by her past.

Yuri, and returns to his hometown in Okinawa. Despite fierce opposition from his
mother, Hanae, the two get married and a child is born. Just as their restaurant

FAMILYbusiness gets going, however, Kinjo declares to his mates that he is giving up the
HISTORY

As his wife’s becomes more familiar to him, he begins to move.
He promises that this time, he will definitely keep her safe.

restaurant in order to spend time to revive coral reefs. During a dive after a long

HISTORY

absence, he saw the sea of Okinawa crying for help under the effect of development
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The final decision he makes is extremely heart wrenching.

and global warming. 90% of the coral reefs, which provide homes for many marine

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creatures, had withered away compared to 30 years ago. “ I want to show Yuri the
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beautiful coral reefs just like before.” Kinjo rises in his ardent desire to take up thewildest challenge to cultivate corals and transplant them into the ocean.

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Directed and Written by Dynamite Taira

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Producer : Dynamite Taira
Directed by Toshio Lee

Production Company : PROJECT9 LLC.

Producer : Kei Haruna

Sales Company: PROJECT9 LLC.
Starring : Toshihisa Nishihira, Yuki Oshiro, Masayoshi Kishimoto,
Hitomi Yatabe, Hidetoshi Kanzaki, Takahito Taira etc

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Contact

Contact

Production Company : Lee Riders

PROJECT9 LLC.

Starring : Takashi Okamura, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hisashi Yoshizawa,Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +81- 90- 6859-5385

Running Time : 90min

E-mail : info@project-nine.info

Sales Company : SHOWGATE INC.

Jun Kunimura, Masami Nagasawa
Completion Year : 2010

Running Time : 120min

SHOWGATE INC. Licensing Division,
International Sales
Phone : +81-3-6441-9696
E-mail : isales@showgate.jp
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TAKESHIS’©1989 PARCO

Untamagiru
NATURE

Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show

NATURE

Giru lives and works hard covered in sugar canes every day at abiz celebrity. But his blond look alike named Kitano, a shy

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convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his

sugar refinery for her little sister Chiru, a prostitute who is unable to

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get customers after being possessed by animal fortune-telling, andbig break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating

FAMILYauditions, Kitano seems to mysteriously fall into a fantasy statehighlighted by aspects of Beat's real life and a violent on-screen

her bulimic mother. Giru fell for Mare, a pig’s incarnate and the

FAMILYemployer’s boss’s foster daughter, and engaged in a restricted act
the night of the festival. The boss, who was angry at Giru, exiled him

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persona... .

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to the Forest of Untama, where the Demon of the Forest, Kijimuna,lives.

Written, edited and directed by Takeshi Kitano
Producer : Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida

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Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL, TOKYO FM, DENTSU, TV ASAHI,

Producer : Junichi Ito, Natsuki Haryu

OFFICE KITANO INC.

Production Company : PARCO Co.,Ltd.

Sales Company : OFFICE KITANO INC.

Sales Company : PARCO Co.,Ltd.

Starring : Beat Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto,

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Directed and Written by Go Takamine

Ren Ohsugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe,Contact

Akihiro Miwa etc

OFFICE KITANO INC.

Starring : Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, Chikaku Aoyama,
John Sayles etc

Contact

PARCO Co.,Ltd.

Completion Year : 2005

Phone : +81-3-5572-7099

Completion Year : 1989

Phone : +81-3-3477- 8911

Running Time : 107min

E-mail : nakano@office-kitano.co.jp

Running Time : 120min

E-mail : sone-sati@parco.jp
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ZINNIA FLOWER
NATUREA yakuza who was raised in Tsuji, Okinawa named Ryuto, meets a

On the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife

mysterious Juri (Okinawan geisha) named Richi through his mom’s

CULTUREmemento, Jifa (an ornamental hairpin).

and Ming loses her fiancée, leaving their world with nothing but

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emptiness. Buddhist rituals give 100 days to mourn for the dead,To earn money, he quit Yakuza and gets out from the island for a

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nuclear decontamination operation. In the middle of the operation a
massive aftershock causes him to be exposed to the radiation.

and like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles,

FAMILYhitting walls, and still ends up where he began. Ming calmly creeps
down a determined path, seemingly moving forward, but towards a

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Richi, having an old Juri’s heart will face an assassin sends by thegovernment, who’s in mission of hiding Ryuto’s radiation exposure.

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fatal dead end. No matter how they choose to mourn, the pain andsorrow is all the same. With the 100th day approaching, they

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Directed and Written by Yasunari Izuma

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wonder if they will ever be able to say goodbye.

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Producer : Seijun Toguchi, Yoshihiro Ueno

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Directed by Tom Shu-Yu Lin

Production Company : Yasunari Izuma’s Film, CMC Inc.

Written by Tom Shu-Yu Lin, Liu Weijan

Sales Company : IZUMAX FILM

Producer : I-Ling Lin, Lin Shih ken, Takako Miyahira, Mei Chang

Starring : Myuji, YUSURA, Setsuko Tamagusuku, Tetsuhiro Daiku,

Production Company : Atom Cinema, KuKuru Vision

Hajime Tsukumo, Miki Itokazu, Shunichi Irei,

Sales Company : ABLAZE IMAGE Ltd.

Contact

Contact

Starring : Karena Lam, Stone etc

ABLAZE IMAGE Ltd.

Completion Year : 2015

IZUMAX FILM

Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +886-2-3322-1220

Running Time : 103min

E-mail: izumayasu@aol.com

Running Time : 96min

E-mail : info@ablazeimage.com

Kohei Ozawa, etc

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GOAT-WALKING
NATURE

Asuka, a new actress who lives in Tokyo visits Aka island in

NATUREThe goat, raised with care for the son’s wedding, runs away

Okinawa, the southern islands of Japan. Junior high-school student

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Takeshi, the son of the owner of a guest house, is to show her

and meets a young boy.

CULTUREThe story takes place in a hamlet in Yanbaru, where oldaround with his heart pounding. He can’ t imagine himself talking to

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someone like her who he only sees on a screen. When she walks
around, she happens to see a Black sika Deer. Since she heard the

Okinawan scenery still remains. A goat, carefully raised by

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an old man for his son’s wedding celebration, runs away on
the day of the wedding, causing an upheaval in the village. As

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legend about Black sika Deer from Takeshi’s father previously, it
raises painful memories and accusing voices from her workmate

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the goat runs away in frenzy, what it sees is the beautiful
scenery of Okinawa. The goat meets a young boy, andDRAMAcome up to her mind, she gets depressed. Through the day-to-day

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becomes aware of its own fate… .

life on the island with Takeshi, her mood gradually gets changed.
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Producer : Kiyonobu Nakasone, Kensaku Nagata, Satoshi Nakada,

Production Company : Sugar Train Inc.

Sueko Nago

Sales Company : SUGAR TRAIN Inc.

Production Company : G-Grip
Starring : Rinako Matsuoka, Tomonoshin Iha, Tomoaki Kudaka,
Naoko Uehara

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OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeStarring : Soji Uehara, Seima Gima, Susumu Taira,Taeko Yoshida, Yayoi Shiroma etc

Contact

OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeCompletion Year : 2012

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Completion Year : 2008

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Running Time : 15min

E-mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

Running Time : 10min24sec

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Hello Zombi©2012 Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau, CMC, All Rights Reserved

Indigo Love
NATURE

Don, the director of a filmmaking club, is obsessed with the making

NATUREA busy Taiwanese actress, Meiling, is troubled by many incidents

of a horror movie with his friend and cameraman, Tommy. “We

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have no talent. Let’s stop doing this,” Tommy says to Don, as thethat happen on her vacation on Okinawa island. It is her first

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experience traveling all by herself.

film is almost done. But Don refuses to give up his dream until he

FAMILYcreates one great piece. That is when a real zombie appears infront of them. Instead of helping the actors who are attacked,

She meets a guy who is supposed to be staff at the luxury hotel

FAMILYshe reserved at Naha International Airport, but there is something
wrong... . Her vacation mood is completely ruined... .

Tommy can’ t help but film the scene. Don’s fear and passion for

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filmmaking becomes stronger despite the danger to his staff. Will
they finish the movie? Enjoy a tropical zombie movie from Okinawa.

Directed by Souichi Takayama

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Written by Shinichiro Chinen
Producer : Souichi Takayama

Written by Shinichiro Chinen

Production Company : CMC OKINAWA CO.,LTD.

Producer : Hiroshi Arakawa, Satoshi Nakada, Kensaku Nagata,
Ken Ikehara and Sueko Nago

Sales Company : RAKUSOSHA CO.,LTD.
Starring : Benbee, Ai Kawamitsu, kyohei Higa,

Contact

Production Company : CMC Inc.

Contact

RAKUSOSHA CO.,LTD.

Starring : Sachiko JUDY Fukumoto, Shogen, Nobuyuki Heian

OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeCompletion Year : 2014

Phone : +81-3-3384-7606

Completion Year : 2012

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Running Time : 45min

E-mail : rakusosha@neo.tamille.ne.jp

Running Time : 19min 57sec

E-mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

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Kerama Blue© 2014 "Life sucks" Production Committee

Life sucks
NATUREA couple arrives from Europe to stay at a guesthouse in Zamami

NATURE

Ueno, a newly hired writer working at a publishing company inVillage. The husband Chris is a Swiss photographer, and his wife

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Meg is Japanese-American.

Tokyo, is given an assignment to write a feature on Okinawa for a

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travel magazine. Her disagreeable boss finds fault with her plans

Their conversations are in English and neither understands

FAMILYJapanese. Hana Hanashiro, owner of the guesthouse, and Yuhi
Hanashiro, Hana’s grandson who works there, only speak

and she is told that she will be moved to another department. As herlast chance, she goes to Okinawa to conduct just one day of

FAMILYcoverage. Without a definite aim, and after losing her bag and
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Japanese.
While Meg grows closer to Hana even though they do not

becoming penniless, Ueno is taken to a town called Koza city by a

HISTORY

taxi that is passing by. There, she is made fun of by the townspeople.
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understand each other’s language, Chris is miserable, moody andunable to adjust to the guesthouse or island environment.

Will she be able to conduct her coverage without problems? Will her

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life change in a trip of just one day? This is a comedy piece

His stubbornly closed heart is awakened by something he sees

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underwater.

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interspersed with the charm and humanity of Okinawa.

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Directed and Written by Gori
Producer : Kana Izumi, Keishi Kuroki
Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Directed and Written by Tsukasa Kishimoto

Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Producer : Ken Ikehara

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Starring : Mami Hashimoto, Sakura Ishado, Masao Teruyama,

Production Company : CMC Inc.

Contact

Starring : Daniel López, Haruka Tobaru, Taeko Yoshida, Shogen

OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeCompletion Year : 2015

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Completion Year :2014

Phone : +81-3-3209-8202

Running Time : 19min 58sec

E-mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

Running Time : 30min

E-mail : nakamura.tadashi@yoshimoto.co.jp

Masumi Rodriguez, Jun Omine, Gori

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Mother of the Groom©2013 Okinawa Prefectural Government. All Rights Reserved.

The Path of KUMIODORINATURE

After running away from home, Eiichi goes back to his hometown in

NATURE

Museum worker Takeshi Kamiya maneges to find time every day to

Okinawa for the first time in about a decade to announce his

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marriage. His mother and grandmother don’ t approve of hispractice the traditional Ryukyu art of "Kumiodori" and shows the

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path of the artist as he works and performs on stage. His son,non-Okinawan wife, and give the couple some conditions to make

FAMILYher a suitable Okinawan woman.

Takeshi had experienced lonely days without his father who was

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almost never home between his timepracticing and appearing on
stage, but eventually decides to join his busy father in aiming to be

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a performer of "Kumiodori". That is when he meets "Marumun" the embodiment of traditional arts, which dwells in the theatre.

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Directed and Written by Chikako Yamashiro, Atsushi Sunagawa

Written by Kanae Kochi, Tsukasa Kishimoto
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Production Company : CMC Inc.
Starring : Takeshi Kamiya, Takenoshin Kamiya, Sayuri Chibana,

Production Company : CMC Inc.

Contact

Starring : Akira Ota, Moeko Fukuda, Taeko Yoshida

OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeCompletion Year : 2011

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Completion Year : 2014

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Running Time : 26min

E-mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

Running Time : 19min 58sec

E-mail : filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

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Sweets Life
NATURE

Ayumi is 34 years old and has been working as an information call

NATUREIzo Iraha, a Tomigusuku city tourism official, is tired of his job. Lazy,center operator for the past 10 years. In this day and age when

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anyone can find whatever they want on the internet, inquiries haveand stuck in a dead-end office, he isn't even interested in

CULTURETomigusuku at all. In spite of this, he is appointed to lead a tourism

dropped markedly. The phone doesn’ t ring much anymore. Ayumi is

FAMILYplagued by feelings of emptiness and loneliness. She responds toonly one or two calls a day, routine inquiries from older people who

project. Naturally, he is not at all motivated, but his co-workers get
on moving the project ahead, and a costumed mascot character is

FAMILYdeveloped. He is encouraged by elementary school student, and the
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use the telephone as their source for information. One day, Ayumi issummoned along with several of her coworkers by her boss to bework continues. While working reluctantly on his job, he travels all

HISTORY

around Tomigusuku city every day. Can such a person make theDRAMAsuddenly told she would be laid off. She returns to her parents’

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Tomigusuku tourism project a success?

house as if drawn there for some reason. When she arrives, herfather, with whom she hadn’ t had any contact in years, is waiting.

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Directed and Written by Yosep Anggi Noen

Directed and Written by Tsukasa Kishimoto

Producer : Hyoe Yamamoto, Deborah Barillas

Production Company : Tomigusuku City Film Production Committee
Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency Co., Ltd.
Starring : Erika, Masahiro Arakaki, Tamotsu Oshiro,
Tsubu Mustard Ashimine

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OCVB Okinawa Film OfficeStarring : Benbee, Tomoji Yamashiro, Kengo Higa,
Natsumi Ikema, Mayumi Ueda, Hiroki Kawata

Contact

Tomigusuku City Film Production Committee

Completion Year : 2015

Tel. : +81-98-859-6162

Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +81-98-856-8766

Running Time : 20min

E-mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp

Running Time : 30min

E-mail : t05@tomigusuku-okinawa.jp
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© Eurasiavison

DownTown Dance
NATURE

Kunigami village is located in the northernmost of Okinawa. In the Yanbaru forest,
elementary school student Manabu takes his friends Yuna and Hana, and his grandfather,

A documentary about residents of a shopping district in Okinawa
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Mayor Masahide, who hit his head only to lose his memory except when he was 5 year
olds, he protected the Okinawa rail. After six months of no recovery, Yuna and Hana get
depressed as the mayoral inauguration day approaches for Deputy Mayor Maeda, who

FAMILY

village. Will Manabu and his friends be able to save the Okinawa rail? And will the

FAMILYare people who are trying to restore urban vitality. At the

HISTORY

volunteers aim to revitalize the shopping area with their music.

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Sakae-machi Market Night Stall Festival.
A feature film directorial debut for Nitta Yoshitaka.

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memory of Masahide return?
Directed and Written by Gori

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Directed by Yoshitaka Nitta

Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Production Company : Eurasiavision

Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Contact

Sales Company : Eurasiavision

Contact

Starring : Issei Fukuhara, Natsuki Kinjo, Ayaka Ishikawa, Masao Teruya,

Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD.

Starring : Sakaemachi Granny Rappers, Morito, Customers of Sakaemachi

Eurasiavision

Phone : +81-3-3209-8300

Completion Year : 2012

Phone : +81-90-3196-4739

E-mail : isagawa.ikue@yoshimoto.co.jp

Running Time : 89min

E-mail : ynitta@rd6.so-net.ne.jp

Kanako Fukuda, Satoshi Kadekaru
Completion Year : 201551

At a time when the hollowing out of cities is being decried, there

The market gradually comes to life with events like theDRAMA

and his friends and come from Tokyo to interview them. Gori's third film as director of a
Local Origination Project film is a suspense comedy of "family love" set in Kunigami

CULTURE

Sakae-machi market in Okinawa Prefecture's Naha City,HISTORY

a clue as how to proceed, Manabu and his friends face a difficult challenge. Then, oneday, magazine writer Matsuda and photographer Yano learn of the activities of Manabu

Prefecture's Naha City. It records the volunteers who strive torevitalize the market with "music" as their keyword.

wants to demolish the Okinawa rail facilities to build a resort hotel. The problems
continue to pile up as the TV news reports that poachers are in the area... . Without even

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Edonobori -The Spirit of Ryukyu-©2012 Kaiensha

Fuji Students
NATUREA documentary that zooms in on the activities of those who bet

NATURE

Documentary about students from Sekitoku Girl's High School who

their lives on reviving a traditional art, “Edo Nobori,” which used

CULTURE

to be presented by the Ryuku delegation to the government for

cared for wounded soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa at the close of

CULTUREthe Pacific War. The bitter experiences of these girls who survived withover 200 years until 160 years ago, as well as the history and

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culture of Ryuku.

minimal wartime deaths comes to life through testimony by those who

FAMILY

were in the student corps. The twenty-five members of the "Fuji
Student Corps" from Sekitoku Girl's School were mobilized to care for

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wounded soldiers. The student corps worked themselves to the bone ata field hospital, but get dissolution orders as battle conditions

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deteriorate. The circumstances at that time emerge through theremaining student corps members who survived the Battle of Okinawa.

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Directed by Yoshiaki Hongou

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Producer : Shinya Sueyoshi, Yoshinori Yona
Directed by Gakuya Nomura

Production Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Production Company : Kaiensha Inc.

Sales Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.
Starring : Uzagakuhukugen Ensoukenkyukai, Shizue Matayoshi,

Sales Company : Kaiensha Inc.

Contact

Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Starring : Haru Nakasato, Toyoko Miyagi, Kikuko Miyagi

Kaiensha Inc.

Completion Year : 2011

Phone : +81-98-857-5533

Completion Year : 2012

Phone : +81-98-850-8485

Running Time : 69min

E-mail : info@cine-oki.jp

Running Time : 48min

E-mail : mail@kaiensha.jp

Etsuko Higa etc

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Gaia Symphony No.4

©2012 Kaiensha

Izaihou
NATUREThe 21st century would be an age when "gentle spirituality" will be

NATURE

Kudaka Island is a half-agricultural and half-fishing remote island where theneeded in all aspects of the life of mankind. It will be our critical task

CULTURE

to nurture it, not only in education, culture and art, but in those fields

men run the fishing industry and the women do the agriculture. Life on the

CULTUREsmall island is not easy. They share the scarce water and share the land fairly

that have traditionally been far removed from spirituality, such as

FAMILY

politics, economics or science. Because each one of us is beginning
to realize that this lack of spirituality and man's actions as a result ofwith an allotment system. When the boys become men, they all go out the sea.
The women come together around the rituals, praying for the safety of the

FAMILYjourneying men and protection of the island. The men are fishermen and
HISTORY

it are putting the future of all lives on the earth in peril.
Spirituality, simply put, is the ability to feel within ourselves in the

HISTORY

travelers, and the women are priestesses who protect them... .
Kudaka Island has long been known as the island of the gods, and 30 yearlyDRAMA

course of our daily life that we are indeed being kept alive, here andnow, as a part of this singular, greater life of the Mother Earth, Gaia.

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rituals embedded into island life are solemnly passed down by the islanders
even to this day. Held once every 12 years on the year of the horse, Izaihou is

For the children who will be born and grow in the 21th century.

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Kudaka Island’s greatest ritual. During Izaihou, women from the ages of 30 to
41 who were born on and live on the island become gods. It is held over a

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period of a little more than a month, but usually focused on four days.

Directed and Written by Jin Tatsumura
Producer : Yukari Tatsumura, Akira Maejima
Directed by Gakuya Nomura

ProductionCompany : Jin Tatsumura Office Inc.

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Contact

Production Company : Kaiensha Inc.

Contact

Starring : James Lovelock, Gerry Lopez, Jane Goodall, Bokunen Naka

Jin Tatsumura Office Inc.

Sales Company : Kaiensha Inc.

Kaiensha Inc.

Completion Year : 2001

Phone : +81-3-5368-5480

Completion Year : 1967

Phone : +81-98-850-8485

Running Time : 135min

E-mail : order@gaiasymphony.com

Running Time : 49min

E-mail : mail@kaiensha.jp
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Katabui©2015 SIGLO

Okinawa The Afterburn
NATURE

Daniel López didn't know anything about Okinawa.

NATUREOn April 1st of 1945, the American army landed on the Okinawa mainland.

Seduced by these southern Japanese islands, once an independent

CULTURE

kingdom, he left Switzerland to settle there.

The following Okinawa battles lasted for 12 weeks and 1 out of every 4

CULTURE

residents lost their lives. This movie focuses on the reality of the battles

Ten years later, he shares his fondness for Okinawa but also his

FAMILYquestioning on the archipelago's identity threatened by the U.S.
military presence and an excessive urban development.

through countless interviews to American veterans who fought on the

FAMILY

battlefields, Japanese veterans, and Okinawa residents, together withrecorded videos stored in the US National Archives, taken by the

HISTORY

To understand the locals' peaceful resistance, he takes us inside
Okinawa on the path to discovering a local belief with inspirational

HISTORY

American soldiers.
The movie also depicts the history of discrimination and oppression in

DRAMA

scope.

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Okinawa, which has been forced by Japan and the USA to bear the burdenof the American military base since the days of post-war American rule to

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Directed and Written by Daniel López

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which lead to the recent moving of the base to Henoko Bay.

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Directed by John Junkerman

Claude Gagnon

Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami

Production Company : Thelma Film AG, Kukuru Vision Inc.

Production Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Sales Company : Kukuru Vision Inc.
Contact

Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Contact

Kukuru Vision Inc.

Starring : Eiko Asato, Eriko Ikeda, Mao Ishikawa, Masa Inafuku etc

Siglo, Ltd.

Completion Year : Coming Soon in 2016

Phone : +81-98-866-7867

Completion Year : 2015

Phone : +81-3-5343-3101

Running Time : 80min

E-mail : info@kukuruvision.com

Running Time : 148min

E-mail : siglo@cine.co.jp

Yasuhiro Uema etc

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Producer : Takako Miyahira, Pierre-Alain Meier, Yuri Yoshimura Gagnon,

Starring : Rieko Shinjo, Morito Itoman, Minoru Kinjo, Seibin Itoman,

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The Old Man and the Sea
NATURETaking place 20 years ago on a wild but beautiful Yonaguni Island, an elderly fisherman
chases a huge swordfish weighing 200 kilograms in his sabani, a small, traditional

CULTURE

Okinawan boat. Supported by the other island residents, he leaves his wife to go out tothe sea, which he loves. Despite having struggled for a long time to bring in a good
haul, the old man has never forgotten his respect for nature or his fisherman’s pride,

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when he tried to capture another large fish, thinking that it was a swordfish again, he
was instead dragged under the water. There is no doubt that this old man, who lived

This movie was created to honor the 40th anniversary since the restoration

CULTUREto Japan. The director is Yoshiaki Hongo, the creator of the hit documentary

FAMILYusing many historic documents to reenact Shuri Castle the art from the

HISTORY

dynasty eras, lost due to the end of the kingdom and battles in Okinawa, andDRAMA

by rethinking the history, culture, and entertainment of Ryuku from the

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fresh perspective of Jo-Hoko, a Chinese envoy, the movie looks back on the

At the end of July, in 1990, one month before the film premiered in Tokyo, the oldfisherman went out to sea in his sabani, just like he always did. However, this time,

NATURE

movie released two years ago, “Edo Nobori – The Spirit of Ryuku Japan.” Bytime seems to flow leisurely there. From the first planning stages, it took five years forthe film to be completed, with the actual filming taking place over the span of one year.

The Ryukyu Kingdom from
Jo Hoko’s Perspectiveof diplomatic relations between Japan and China, and the return of Okinawa

and after one year, he finally manages to overcome and capture the swordfish.
The film manages to capture the unique culture of Yonaguni Island and the way that©2013 Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

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lost history of cultural exchange and trade between Japan’s Ryuku andChina that took place then, and puts the present day into a new perspective.

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off the sea and who eventually returned to the sea, is the true protagonist of thismovie, “The Old Man and The Sea,” both in the movie and in real life.

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Directed and Written by Yoshiaki Hongou
Producer : Shinya Sueyoshi
Production Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Directed by John Junkerman

Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami

Production Company : Siglo, Ltd.,Starring : Shigeru Itokazu
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Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Completion Year : 1990

Running Time : 98min

Contact

Sales Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Contact

Siglo, Ltd.

Starring : Wu Yang-Hua, Kurayoshi Takara, Nobuo Harada etc

Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Phone : +81-3-5343-3101

Completion Year : 2013

Phone : +81-98-857-5533

E-mail : siglo@cine.co.jp

Running Time : 71min

E-mail : info@cine-oki.jp
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Seventeen Short Lived©2003 Shirayuri Project

Shirayuri Club Goes to Tokyo
NATUREA war survivor, Michiko Miyagi couldn’ t talk about it for 44 years.

NATUREThe year after the war ended, a group of young people from theShe thought she would be killed by the Japanese government if she

CULTURE

talked about it. A surgeon handed a syringe to her to give an

Shiraho area of Ishigaki Island gathered together to form a band

CULTURE

called the “Shirayuri Club.” Using handmade western instruments,

injection to a wounded soldier in the bomb shelter. She found out it

FAMILY

had poison in it later. Japanese government and military weresecretive. Nothing was told to those student corps. Secchan wasthey sang modern Showa-era pop songs. 56 years pass by. Despite

FAMILY

now having an average age of 70, the members of the Shirayuri
Club continue to perform their songs on the southern island. One

HISTORY

the only one she witnessed the moment of her passing, that’s why
she could never forget about her. She doesn’ t know how and where

HISTORY

day, they are excited to hear that they have been invited to performin Tokyo. Still young at heart, the ever-mischievous members of the

DRAMA

in the field the other friends were killed. 555 high school girls weredrafted to become nurses in Okinawa during WWII. 194 were killed.

DRAMA

Shirayuri Club put on a beautiful show as they dance and sing inTokyo, just as they would do at home. A life without music isn’ tMichiko Miyagi talks about her life-changing experiences.

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living at all!

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Directed by Takao Saiki

Directed by Yuji Nakae

Producer : Takao Saiki

Producer : Mariko Arai, Fumiko Nakamura

Production Company : SIZE

Production Company : Shirayuri Project

Sales Company : SIZE

Sales Company : OFFICE SHIROUS

Contact

Starring : Michiko Miyagi, Yuri Kakazu , Aya Nanbu

Contact

Starring : Shirayuri Club, THE BOOM

OFFICE SHIROUS

Completion Year : 2014

SIZE

Completion Year : 2003

Phone : +81-3-6411-0088

Running Time : 111min

E-mail : tokyo@size.com

Running Time : 90min

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Silent Color Silent Voice©Koichi Onishi 2011

Sketches of Myahk
NATUREA documentary film featuring a married couple living together with thevast nature of Iriomotejima Island in Okinawa. Ishigaki Akiko, a

On Miyako islands, 300km south of Okinawa, people have, for centuries,
CULTUREfabric-dyeing artist who spins her own threads, dyes them into brilliant
colors using native plants and weaves beautiful fabrics, and her husband
Ishigaki Kinsei who loves the songs and festivals of their island. The film

FAMILY

Directed by Ayako Mogi
Producer : Takashi Serizawa, Kumi Aizawa, Werner Penzel ,FAMILYtheir special, sacred places called Utaki. These spiritual songs are theof their harsh daily lives and the crises in their religion. But this precious
culture thatDRAMA

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could follow to the root of Japan is in a crisis of the
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extinction for the change of their life style.

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Directed by Koichi Onishi

Production Company : silent voice Limited Liability Partnership,

Producer : Koichi Onishi

Werner Penzel Film Production,

Production Company : Koichi Onishi Film Officeles films du présent
Sales Company : silent voice Limited Liability Partnership

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Sales Company : UZUMASA,Inc.

Contact

Starring : Akiko Ishigaki, Kinsei Ishigaki, People at Ku-ru Kobo,

silent voice Limited Liability Partnership

Starring : Makoto Kubota, Toyo Nagasaki, Matsu Takara, Kiyo Murayama

Free Stone Productions Co.,Ltd.

Tel : +81-3-3584-0286

Completion Year : 2011

Phone: +81-90-9102-8671

E-mail : info@silentvoice.jp

Running Time : 104min

E-mail: info@freestone.main.jp

People in Sonai village Completion
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Selected shamanistic women continue to pray and sing to their Gods in

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Patolis Nesson

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origins of their vibrant & flourishing folk-song traditions. The songs tell
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images with "color" as their theme - blue ocean, green trees, white raw
silk, navy hand-dyed fabrics - leave a great impression on the viewers.

remembered their history of suffering and hardship under heavy taxation.
However, the people have kept their strong faith in their Gods alive.

closely focuses on the environmental issues of the island while featuring
the simple lifestyle of the couple deeply rooted in the area. The spiritual

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Running Time : 80min

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DOCUMENTARY

OTHER

OTHER
©2013 ajima inc.

Song of Ajima© Omiya Visual Image Production

The Voyage of Bunyo Ishikawa
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Tomoko Uehara was attracted to the world of folk music since she

NATURE

Documentary about the life of news cameraman Ishikawa Bunyo,

was 6 years old. Teruya Rinken was born as the 3rd generation of a

CULTUREfamily of musicians. The two meet and form the one and only

who brought the Vietnam War to the world. Planned, produced and

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directed by Omiya Koichi, who earned acclaim for his directorial

Okinawan pop band, “Rinken Band.” Their style integrates traditional

FAMILY

Okinawan instruments, such as sanshin ( Okinawa-style banjo-like
instrument ) and island drums, with modern instruments such as

debut TADAIMA-I'm home, a place for everyone. After returning

FAMILYhome from Vietnam, Ishikawa continued documenting his hometurf in Okinawa. The crew accompanies the 75-year-old Ishikawa

HISTORY

drums, keyboard, and bass guitar skillfully. Through her encounter
with Teruya Rinken and instruments that are completely different

HISTORY

on visits to Vietnam and Okinawa as he reflects on his pastexperiences. And, he asks the audience what war is, and what it

DRAMAfrom the ones she knew before, Tomoko Uehara’s potential as a

DRAMAmeans to live.

singer grows infinitely… .
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HORROR

SE

SE

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Directed by Shinji Aoyama
Directed by Koichi Omiya

Producer : Takenori Sento

Production Company : Omiya Visual Image Production

Production Company : ajima inc., RENTRAK JAPAN CO., LTD.

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Sales Company : ajima inc.

Contact

Sales Company : TOFOO, LLC.

Contact

Starring : Tomoko Uehara, Rinken Teruya, Rinken Bandajima inc.

Starring : Bunyo Ishikawa

TOFOO, LLC.

Completion Year : 2003

Phone : +81-98-982-7272

Completion Year : 2014

Phone : +81-3-5919-1542

Running Time : 88min

E-mail : tasaki@rinken.gr.jp

Running Time : 109min

E-mail : info@tongpoo-films.jp
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DOCUMENTARYOTHER“Glasses” (2010) ©Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp.

Okinawan Horror Stories
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August 2004, the full moon casts dark shadows in the dead of thenight, "Okinawan Horror Stories" was born… . A three part omnibus

CULTUREdrama containing stories based on local traditions andsuperstitions was enthusiastically received as a new style of horror

FAMILYentertainment. 10 years on, Okinawan horror, from thesouthernmost extremity of Japan, is still going strong with 27

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productions from ambitious creators.
EpisodeDRAMA

Daruma-doll fell down ( Series 1 ), Glasses ( Series 3 ), Dress (Series 5),
a Haunted House ( Series 7 ), Kijimuna island ( Series 8 ) etc

HORRORSE
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Directed by Souichi Takayama
Producer : Nobuji Omori
Production Company : Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp.

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Sales Company : Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp.

Contact

Starring : Shusaku Uchida, Haruka Toubaru, Jun Omine, Kenta Nakaza etc

Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp.

Completion Year : 2010

Phone : +81- 98- 860- 2055

Running Time : 15min 30sec.

E-mail : hirakawa@rbc.co.jp

Locations
in Okinawa

Japan's main island

Index
Go 1,700 km Northeast
to reach Japan’s mainland

A
Away with Words

K
03

B
Okinawa prefecture

Boiling Point

04

C

Magnification
Northern Area

Nakijin Village
MotobuTownS

K AMUI

20

Seventeen Short Lived

61

Karakara

21

Shirayuri Club Goes to TOKYO

62

Katabui

57

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Kerama Blue

45

Sketches of Myahk

64

The Kumiodori "Nidou Tekiuchi"

22

SONATINE

33

The Kumiodori "Shushin Kaneiri"

23Song of Ajima

65

A Song of Gondola

34

Stay

35

The Catcher on the Shore05

Chasuke's Journey

06

L

Cheers from Heaven07

Leaving on the 15th Spring

24

Sunshine Ahead

36

The Crying Wind

08

Life Sucks

46

Sweets Life

50

The Lightning Tree

25
T

D
Central Area

Onna Village
Uruma City

TAKESHIS'

Dancing Karate Kid

09

M

The Deer in Me

41

A Midsummer's Okinawan Dream

26

Dolphin Blue

10

Mother of the Groom

47

Downtown Dance

52

37

U
Untamagiru

38

N
Okinawa City

Kerama Islands

E

Chatan Town

Kume Island

Edonobori - The Spirit of Ryukyu -Naha City

Southern Area

27

V

Nada Sou Sou -Tears for you

28

The Voyage of Bunyo Ishikawa

OF

Nanjo City

Itoman City

53

Nabbie's LoveY

Fuji Students

54

Okinawa The Afterburn

58

FURIMUN in Okinawa

11

Okinawan Horror stories

67

The Old Man and the Sea

59

G

Go 410km Northeast
to reach main island of Okinawa

Yaeyama Islands
Ishigaki Island
Yonaguni Island
Go 250km Northwest
to reach Taiwan

Hateruma Island

Go 340km Westto reach main islandof Okinawa

Kita daitou
IslandGo 290km Northeast
to reach main island of Okinawa

Miyako Island
Tarama Island

69

Minami daitou
IslandYanbaru Kyo! Kyo! Kyo!

51

Z
ZAＭPA

39

ZINNIA FLOWER

40

Gaia Symphony NO.4

55

P

GAMA Gettou no Hana

12

The path of KUMIODORI

48

Goat-Walking

42

The Pig’ s Retribution

29

A GOOD HUSBAND

13

The Profound Desires of the Gods

30

Halser Acre The Movie Acres

14

RUMAH

49

Haruka naru Koushien

15

Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie - The Seven Mabui -31

Hello Zombi

43

Hotel Hibiscus

16

Ryukyu Cowboy Films : “See Me?” “Happy☆Pizza”“Under The Grandpa’ s Umbrella”

32

How to make a Penguin Pair

17

The Ryukyu Kingdom from Jo Hoko’ s Perspective

60

H

66

R

I
Ikinai18

Indigo Love

44

It was so bright I couldn’ t see it.
Slowly I blinked and blinked again.

19

Izaihou

56

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Planning and production by OCVB Okinawa Film Office
Okinawa Industrial Suppor t Center 2F, 1831-1 Oroku, Naha City
Okinawa, 901-0152 JAPANTEL: +81-98-859-6162
FA X: +81-98-859-6221
E-Mail: filmoffice@ocvb.or.jp
http://filmoffice.ocvb.or.jp/en

Published by Okinawa Conventions&Visitors Bureau

Produced by Okinawa Prefectural Government

Production Suppor t by ADOP, INC.

©2015 Okinawa Prefectural Government

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