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.
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...
During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another plac...
Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness ...
This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.
The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, w...
On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, th...
In April 2023, SU-METAL (vocal, dance), MOAMETAL (scream, dance), and MOMOMETAL (scream, dance) ente...
Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film abou...
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a...
"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father,...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
Ayumi Hamasaki's Just the Beginning -20- tour record at Okinawa Convention Center on February 20, 20...
Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war...
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla ...
An Okinawan woman kidnaps the teenage son of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a gi...
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the...