An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs stationed in Okinawa. “There was love,” as the tagline reads, her photography book, 『Red Flower – The Women of Okinawa』 captured the diaristic intimacy of friendships, love affairs, and wild nights shared amongst her social circle of that time.
In April 2023, SU-METAL (vocal, dance), MOAMETAL (scream, dance), and MOMOMETAL (scream, dance) ente...
Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness ...
By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...
In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “mi...
On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, th...
The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, w...
This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.
Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film abou...
During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another plac...
Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger br...
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goe...
Ayumi Hamasaki's Just the Beginning -20- tour record at Okinawa Convention Center on February 20, 20...
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
Aoi has dropped out of high school and gives birth to a baby son with her husband Masaya. They live ...
Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war...
"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father,...
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local O...
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla ...