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 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 ...
By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...
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...
In April 2023, SU-METAL (vocal, dance), MOAMETAL (scream, dance), and MOMOMETAL (scream, dance) ente...
On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, th...
After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student R...
A magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form a...
Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war...
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father,...
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...
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a ...