Okinawa Movies

On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to last 12 weeks and...

In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, th...

Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The co...

On the eve of their return to the states, the crew of the U.S.S. Blake is unpleasantly surprised when their new captain, Lt. Commander Hale, announces...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the fighting is still going strong on a small island i...

Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly befor...

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

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

After an American helicopter crashes into a classroom in Okinawa International University, student Ryuichi is compelled to write a report on a similar...

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

A teacher leads an unlikely team to a high school baseball championship in this sports drama. Managing a team on the verge of extinction, teacher Hiro...

Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate),and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands of mil...

"There are many things that I don't like. The traffic jam on the way to Naha, my debt-ridden father, my best friend's boyfriend, milk, and my hometown...

The film follows the last 4 years life of Grandma Hashima, the last existent from colonial Taiwan, who knows the secrets of "Green Jail," the notoriou...

During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that 6...

Ayumi Hamasaki's Just the beginning -20- tour record at Okinawa Convention Center on February 20, 2018.

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

An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs station...