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OKINAWA ONTENTS LIST OKINAWA ONTENTS LIST Contents Feature Films p03 About Okinawa Film Office Short Films p41 The Okinawa Film Office was established in April 2003 Documentary p52 as a division of the Okinawa Convention & Visitors Bureau.

We have offered support and assistance for about 900 movies, Other p67 dramas, and television programs. We also have a subsidy program, p69 “The Foreign Production Support Program”, Location Map which actively supports international co-productions Index p70 for shooting in Okinawa. FEATURE FILM FEATURE FILM HR IMDCMNAYOTHER DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM HR IMDCMNAYOTHER DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

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NATURE NATURE Asano, raised on Taketomi island, Okinawa, has excellent recall. A 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 CULTURE “Eagles,” but minus special talent for the game he finds himself more or less shunned by CULTURE becomes forgetful. He makes for the ocean and Okinawa, but winds 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 Masaki fails to do a good job and the incensed gangster punches him. Disaster has struck FAMILY FAMILY arrives at a certain gay bar. The azure sofa at the back of the bar is Masaki and his gas station. Takashi owns a snack bar called “Eagle,”and he is an ardent like a peacock’s feathers, comfortable and rich. Asano decides to fan of the Eagles. A former gangster himself, Takashi decides to do something to save call the sofa home. HISTORY Masaki and his filling station. Masaki and his friend Kazuo obtain a gun in Okinawa and HISTORY return to Tokyo. There they discover Takashi is missing. Together with Eagles players DRAMA Masaki goes to the mobsters’ den to see what is happning. The two Eagles members are DRAMA soon beaten half to death, only Masaki gets away. He takes an oil truck from his filling

HORROR station and drives it straight into the gangsters’ lair. HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT Directed and Written by Takeshi Kitano EFFECT 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. 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 Bengal, Beat Takeshi etc Phone : +81- 3- 5550-1623 Running Time : 90min E-mail : [email protected] Completion Year : 1990 Running Time : 98min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A city boy Hiroto gets on the bus alone and heads to Nakijin Village The 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. CULTURE forever. It is here that innumerable directors congregate in white costume, working CULTURE There he quickly finds his place, hanging out with his cousin Ryuya, over 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 earth lead their lives in tune to the screenplays written for them, carrying out their FAMILY FAMILY gone missing... . The Catcher on the Shore is a beautiful story on fates. Chasuke, the flunkey, serves tea to the directors and looks on with interest at childhood and friendship. the way people live their lives as a product of these written scripts. He takes a deep HISTORY interest in Yuri Araki, a sweet, pure, and soft-spoken girl. That interest begins to HISTORY resemble affection. Chasuke discovers that Yuri’s fate is to be hit by a car and die. DRAMA There is only one way to rescue her: Chasuke, the only member of the heavens with DRAMA no say in the writing of the scripts themselves, must descend to earth and keep her

HORROR out of harm’s way… . HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed and Written by Ryugo Nakamura EFFECT Directed and Written by SABU EFFECT Producer : Yuichi Ide Producer : Masayuki Mori Production Company : SUGAR TRAIN, Inc. ProductionCompany : “Chasuke’s Journey”Production Committee Sales Company : SUGAR TRAIN, Inc. Sales Company : SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. / OFFICE KITANO INC.

Starring : Munekazu Uehara, Seima Gima, Yayoi Shiroma, Contact Starring : Ken’ici Matsuyama, Ito Ono, Ren Osugi, Yusuke Iseya, Contact Kenta Nakaza etc SUGAR TRAIN, Inc. Hiromasa Taguchi etc Films Boutique Completion Year : 2010 Tel. +81-98-882-3123 Completion Year : 2015 Phone : +49-30-69537850 Running Time : 84min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 105min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A drama based on a true story. The film depicts the life of Hikaru The stage is Okinawa in summer, on an island where strong winds create

Nakasone, who opened a music studio and made it available free of CULTURE mysterious sounds called “Fuon.” Above the cliffs by the bay is a cemetery, CULTURE charge to high school bands while running a take-out lunch shop in and placed there is a single skull. When the wind blows through a hole Motobu town, Okinawa. Hikaru Oshiro, who owns a small lunch created from a gunshot, it creates a sound. FAMILY FAMILY shop right next to a high school, learns that his young customers do This skull, known as the “The Crying God,” was believed to be the protector not have a place to practice their music. An obliging person, he of the island. builds a music studio in his garage and lets the students use it free HISTORY One summer day, some youngsters play a prank with the “The Crying God.” HISTORY of charge. Before long, the students grow very fond of him. Then, That day on, the sounds of the wind cease, and the peaceful days on the he falls to an illness. DRAMA island begin to be disturbed… . DRAMA The memories of those who live on the island, those came from outside, and

HORROR those who died on the island overlap to reveal the mystery of the “Fuon”. HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed by Makoto Kumazawa EFFECT Directed by Yoichi Higashi EFFECT Written by Masaya Ozaki, Kimiko Ueno Written by Shun Medoruma Producer : Yoshiko Makabe, Keiichi Shigematsu, Hirohisa Mukuju Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami Production Company : “Cheers from Heaven” Film Committee 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 106min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE 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 CULTURE Churaumi Aquarium, one of the biggest aquariums in the world, which is CULTURE unfold, incorporating legends passed down within Ryukyu karate 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 years, is a “Big Mother” who has given birth to and raised 3 children. One FAMILY FAMILY U.S. Also features numerous performances by professional day, her tail fin is destroyed by a mysterious disease and has to be cut off. fighters. Ken Sawamura is a dancer travelling the world. Ken But that leads to the start of the “prosthetic fin project,” which involves the arrives in Okinawa, and decides to crash at the home of an elderly HISTORY cooperation of the aquarium staff and many other people. Witness the HISTORY gentleman he happens to meet. However, this elderly man is in fact creation of this summer’s best story about youth, depicting the coming to Iwao Shinjo, traditional Ryukyu karate grand master and expert DRAMA age of a boy and a girl, the exchange between humans and dolphins, joy and DRAMA dancer. grief, and last but not least, love, all in the scenery of Okinawa.

HORROR HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed by Tsukasa Kishimoto EFFECT Directed by Tetsu Maeda EFFECT 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 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: [email protected] Running Time : 105min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Eisho, who works on a pig farm in Okinawa, likes to mess around doing silly Fusa Miyazato is a teacher of Okinawan dance who serves as principal of a

things with his friends Masaru, with whom there is quite an age gap, and CULTURE kindergarten that she runs in a seaside village. She is a typical example of one of CULTURE Hitoshi. One day, Eisho finds himself falling in love at first sight with the new those of her generation of Okinawans who experienced the hell of battle. The American dancer at his favorite strip club in Koza city, whose name is Orange. bombardment robbed her one by one of a dozen and more of her family and kin, FAMILY FAMILY However, he is quickly approached by an American soldier called Max, who has and at the end only mother and daughter came miraculously alive out of the cave also fallen in love with her, and the two men start fighting to win her love. They at Mabuni point into which they had been driven. But their enemy was not only the decide to go one on one, with the winner getting Orange. Fighting for Orange, for HISTORY U.S. military. Jumbled together in the cave were civilians and Japanese soldiers, HISTORY his friends, and for himself, Eisho gives all he has. But there is also Rimi, the and there unfolded an abominable tragedy. She has never, though, told anyone nurse to think about – she has always watched over Eisho. Eisho’s resolution is DRAMA the truth of what she witnessed in that cave. As much an she would like to, Fusa DRAMA tested when after the fight is over, he realizes what is really important to him. cannot bring herself to speak of that terrible secret she keeps closed up inside.

HORROR HORROR SE SE Directed by Gori SPECIAL Directed by Yutaka Osawa SPECIAL Written by Gori, Yoshikazu Sugiyama EFFECT Written by Tsuyoshi Shima, Yuten Tachibana EFFECT Producer : Gen Uchida, Noriaki Kikui, Keisuke Konishi, Akihiko Yose Producer : Yutaka Umisedo Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Production Company : G.G.S Inc. Sales Company : KADOKAWA CORPORATION Sales Company : G.G.S Inc.

Starring : Gori, Masao Teruya, Daisuke Moromizato, Bobby Ologun, Contact Starring : Mai Asagiri, Tomi Taira, Jiei Kabira, Jun Kunimura, Contact AKINA Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Hiroyuki Okita etc 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 109min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Ten years into his marriage, Shunsuke Kitami , who once had a thriving career as Halser Acre means farmer clan in the Okinawan dialect.Hosaku and his

a still photographer, now mostly picks fights with his wife, Sakura. Breaking his CULTURE granddaughters Haru and Ai are the descendants of Halser Acre, who have CULTURE marriage vow to Sakura to “Have children and always be faithful”, he cheats always lived in harmony with the soil. Haru has a complex stemming not constantly. Sakura , who is desperate to have a child, finally erupts and right only from her small stature, but more so from her inexperience as a Halser FAMILY FAMILY before Christmas, drags her reluctant husband on a vacation to Okinawa. compared to her younger sister, Ai. She accompanies Satsuki to her village. About one year later, Shunsuke has mysteriously lost his will to work and is living Satsuki’s grandfather, who leads the development project, does not a self-indulgent life off his quickly dwindling savings. Shunsuke shows no HISTORY welcome Haru. Haru is at a loss of what to do, then a loud sound howling HISTORY interest in the photo assignments his assistant, Makoto and Bunta, the friendly through the woods heralds the arrival of two monsters, Dobu and Chili. drag queen bring to him. Fed up with Shunsuke, Sakura goes on a trip by herself. DRAMA In her time of crisis, Haru is joined by Hella and Comer as the Acres are DRAMA While she’s gone, Shunsuke invites Ranko, an aspiring actress to his house … . called into battle once again. Is it worth fighting for? Despair can become

HORROR hope through our actions. It’s time to rise up! HORROR SE SE Directed by Isao Yukisada SPECIAL SPECIAL Written by Chihiro Ito EFFECT Directed by Tsukasa Kishimoto EFFECT Producer : Kazuhito Amano, Tatsuya Kunimatsu Written by Yuki Yamada, Tsukasa Kishimoto Production Company : “A GOOD HUSBAND” Film Committee Producer : Yoshi Takenouchi, Hisaya Nozaki, Manabu Kaneko, Souichi Takayama, Sales Company : TOEI COMPANY,LTD. Azusa Fusato

Starring: Etsushi Toyokawa, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Asami Mizukawa, Contact Sales Company : Ritz Productions Inc. Production Company : Acre Film Contact Gaku Hamada, Yu Shirota, Kanji Tsuda, Kaoru Okunuki, Haruka Igawa, TOEI COMPANY,LTD. Starring : AKINA, Tomoji Yamashiro, Shingo Chinen, Kenta Nakaza, Ritz Productions Inc. Renji Ishibashi Phone:+81-3-3535-7621 Shinichiro Chinen etc Phone:+81- 50- 7535-1000 Completion Year : 2010 Running Time : 131min E-mail: [email protected] Completion Year : 2015 Running Time : 93min E-mail: [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE The year is 1964. Rubella, having devastated the United States, 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 CULTURE small hotel in Okinawa, called the Hotel Hibiscus. Only one room is available for guests CULTURE several children with vision defects. Fifteen years later, the to stay in; the rest make up the living quarters of the family. Their little family is made students of Kitashiro Ro Gakko, a school newly built for those up of Mom, who supports the family by working in a bar, Dad, an easygoing man whose FAMILY FAMILY children, decide to launch a baseball club amidst protests and talents include the sanshin, a traditional Okinawan instrument, as well as billiards, consternation from those around them. Now, the summer of their Kenji, the older brother who is half black, Sachiko, the older sister who is half white, graduating year, they embark on a challenge to make the junior HISTORY and grandma, who is never seen without a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. HISTORY leagues at Koshien Stadium. “International” is definitely one of the ways you could describe the family. Mieko’s days DRAMA are very busy. For one thing, Notojima, the only guest who ever stays at the hotel, plays DRAMA games with her every day. On top of that, her best friends, Gappai and Mintama, take

HORROR her on adventures to find Kijimuna, Okinawan spirits who live in the forest. HORROR SE Mieko often makes friends during her adventures, and this summer was no exception! SE Directed by Yutaka Osawa SPECIAL SPECIAL Written by Takeo Kunihiro EFFECT EFFECT Producer : Shuhei Nodu, Kazunari Hashiguchi Directed by Yuji Nakae Written by Motoko Nakae, Yuji Nakae Production Company : Futabasha Publishers Ltd. Producer : Shiro Sasaki, Isao Takenaka, Kazumi Kawashiro, Kenji Takahara, Sales Company : KADOKAWA CORPORATION Kazushi Yoshikawa

Starring : Tomokazu Miura, Misako Tanaka, Mayumi Ogawa , Contact Production Company : OFFICE SHIROUS Contact Hitoshi Ueki etc KADOKAWA CORPORATION Starring : Honami Kurashita, Kimiko Yo, Tomi Taira, Masao Teruya, OFFICE SHIROUS Completion Year : 1990 Phone : +81-3-3238-8729 Seijin Noborikawa etc Phone : +81-3-6411-0088 Running Time : 104min E-mail : [email protected] Completion Year : 2003 Running Time : 92min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Ayumi works as a Freelance writer in Tokyo. She meets a Chinese 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 CULTURE three-night tour of Okinawa’s sunrises, is waiting for his last tour client, CULTURE day, the company, which the Chinese photographer works for, goes bankrupt. Yashiro, to arrive. The other tourists, what few of them there are, are As the result, he loses the job. In order to cheer her husband up, she takes him aboard the bus. Just before departing, a girl calls out to Aragaki – her FAMILY FAMILY to Ishigaki Island. In there, they are fascinated by beautiful nature, hospitality, name is Mitsuki. It seems she has come in place of her uncle, who was and tasty food. Therefore, they decide to move to Ishigaki Island. As the new slated to take part in the tour. Thus, the group of just thirteen people, residents, they do not know what to do there. Fortunately, they have the same HISTORY Mitsuki now aboard, leave for the bus tour. As it turns out, this tour is HISTORY interest as “food”. They decide to use the local ingredients to produce the 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 DRAMA of life insurance! That is, everyone but Mitsuki… . DRAMA 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. HORROR HORROR SE Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu SE SPECIAL Written by Dankan SPECIAL EFFECT Producer : Masayuki Mori, Yasushi Tuge, Takio Yoshida EFFECT Directed by Katsutoshi Hirabayashi Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL, TBS,TOKYO FM, Written by Atsushi Asada, Katsutoshi Hirabayashi KADOKAWA CORPORATION, OFFICE KITANO INC. Producer : Yusuke Wakabayashi Sales Company : OFFICE KITANO INC.

Production Company : dub Contact Starring : Dankan, Nanako Okouchi, Toshinori Omi, Contact Sales Company : PRESIDIO CORPORATION Ritz Productions Inc. Ippei Souda etc OFFICE KITANO 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 Running Time : 90min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 100min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Slowly I blinked and blinked again. In 17th century Japan, Kamui is born an outcast in a rigidly hierarchical society. He has

CULTURE only one prayer, to become stronger, to be accepted as a real human being. Soon Kamui CULTURE Miyuki, who has lost her parents, comes alone to an island. She awakens becomes a ninja in order to live. Once a ninja, he must use the skills to harm and kill on the small wave-rocked boat to see Shiori waving a flag on the beach. others. Growing to despise these lethal laws of the ninja, he becomes a fugitive, always FAMILY FAMILY Shiori has been in ill health since birth, and covers up her fragility by on the run… . playing the thankless role of a coarse and vulgar person. This led 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 HISTORY action title now comes to the big screen. With the top staffs and cast from the Japanese HISTORY under the pretense of medical care. The people of the island, flying in the film industry, this entertainment adventure is one of the largest budgeted films ever face of progressive modern society, still maintain an idyllic life, with a DRAMA made in Japan. Taking place on land and in the oceans, Kamui, will sure to fascinate the DRAMA sole windmill as their only source of electricity. worldwide audience with the amazing action and the dramatic fate that Kamui faces.

On this island, frozen in time, the pure Shiori feels somehow constrained. HORROR HORROR Even with her weak constitution, she is still becoming a woman… . SE SE SPECIAL Directed by Yoichi Sai SPECIAL EFFECT Written by Kankuro Kudo EFFECT Directed and Written by Kei Ikeda Producer : Nozomu Enoki Producer : Hiroaki Morooka, Kentaro Suzuki, Ryosuke Aizaka Production Company : KAMUI Film Partners Production Company : KURUWA. Llc. Sales Company : Shochiku CO.,LTD.

Sales Company : JAPAN MUSIC SYSTEM, STEP UP RECORDS Contact Starring : Kenichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hideaki Ito, Contact Starring : Airi Kido, Miyuri Arai, Nobushige Suematsu, Takashi Yuki, KURUWA. Llc. Koichi Sato etc Shochiku CO.,LTD. Naoko Watanabe etc Phone : +81-3-3304-4277 Completion Year : 2009 Phone : +81- 3- 5550-1623 Completion Year : 2013 Running Time : 90min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 120min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A road movie about cultivating friendship across both nationality and Kumiodori, a traditional Japanese performance, has been passed down to through

circumstances, as a man and woman who meet in Okinawa go on a journey CULTURE generations. This performance, called “Nido Tekiuchi”, set in ancient Ryukyu war, CULTURE together. It is directed by Claude Gagnon, whose film Kenny was an was first performed in 1719. In the performance, the Tsurumatsu and Kamechiyo international hit in the 1980s. brothers disguised themselves as dancers, planning to avenge their father on FAMILY FAMILY Honored in two categories including an audience award at 36th Montreal Amawari. We decided to adapt this performance “Nidou Tekiuchi” for the screen so World Film Festival, Karakara tells the story about friendship across both that you can enjoy “Kumiodori”, deemed a part of UNESCO’s list of world heritage nationality and circumstances as man and woman who meet in Okinawa. HISTORY and important intangible cultural heritage by the Japanese Government. You will HISTORY Pierre, a retired university professor from Canada, visits Okinawa for a enjoy their beautiful stage costumes and the way they deliver their lines in archaic Qigong retreat. There he happens to meet Junko, japanese housewife, and DRAMA Ryukyu language. DRAMA they hit it off immediately. However, the next day, Junko shows up after Please enjoy the film and experience the history of Ryukyu Kingdom at the height

being punched by her husband. HORROR of prosperity by trade period. HORROR SE *Ryukyu is another name of Okinawa SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT EFFECT

Directed by Claude Gagnon Producer : Takako Miyahira, Samuel Gagnon Directed by Naoya Oshiro Producer : Naoya Oshiro Production Company : Karakara Partners & Zuno Films Production Company : JTB Okinawa, Urasoe City

Sales Company : Kukuru Vision Inc. Contact Starring : Seigi Tamagusuku, Arakaki Satoru, Naoya Ishikawa, Contact Starring : Gabriel Arcand, Youki Kudoh, Megumi Tomita Kukuru Vision Inc. Shigeo Miyagi etc JTB Okinawa Completion Year : 2012 Tel : +81 98 996 5156 Completion Year : 2013 Phone : +81-98-860-7704 Running Time : 104min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 64min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE “Shushin Kaneiri” was the first Kumio dori play to be shown at the 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. CULTURE a sugarcane field. Minami Daito Island is located approximately 360km east from the CULTURE Wakamatsu is a handsome young man who asks a woman for Okinawa Island. Since there is no high school, students have to leave the island when they lodging after losing his way. She desperately falls in love with him, graduate from junior high school. Next spring, Yuna will move to Naha to enter a high FAMILY FAMILY but the love is not mutual and Wakamatsu’s dissent causes the school same as everyone and live with her mother, Akemi. But Yuna is worried about her woman to transform into a demon. This play was inspired by the Noh father as he will be left alone in the island. She wishes all of her family could live together play “Dojo-Ji.” HISTORY again some day. HISTORY In the cinema production, the entire play is accompanied by Yuna is a member of borodino mu-su-me, they play a sanshin and sing a traditional island subtitles, and short movies have been added before and after the DRAMA songs. In the island’s custom, girls sing “Abayoi”, a song for farewell and giving their DRAMA play, as to give the viewer a better understanding. gratitude 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,

Starring : Shinji Kinjo, Yoshikazu Sanabe, Jinichi Uza, Kyugen Oyadomari, Contact DIGITAL FRONTIER Inc. Contact Satoru Arakaki 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 : [email protected] Completion Year : 2013 Running Time : 114min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Peasants from the village of Seta, named for its main family, avoid the woods around the nearby After becoming worn out with her relationship in Tokyo, Yuriko returns to her home mountain because they say a goblin lives there. The goblin, we find after she drives two of them CULTURE island. She has many fond memories in Yugafu Island, where they celebrate CULTURE away, is a girl, Rai, who lives deep in the forest with a man she calls ‘Father’. In far-off Edo, the Kijimuna, spirits who live in the forest and watch over the island. Ever since she was Shogun’s son Narimichi is acting erratically. His mother was mentally unstable, he is subject to a young girl, Yuriko was the only child who could talk to the odd little Kijimun called fits of temper, complains he cannot sleep, and it is decided he will travel to the village of his FAMILY FAMILY Majiru. “Don’t forget about me, even when you get older. I’ ll always be waiting here aide, 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 for you.” Majiru never forgot that promise with Yuriko, waiting day after day for her HISTORY HISTORY makes a deal with a samurai from a neighboring clan to kill Narimichi, and thus bring disaster to return. It was Majiru’s duty to watch over the island and Yuriko. on the village. Rai saves Narimichi from him. Rai, we now learn, is really ‘Yu’, the sister of Seta. When she arrives to the island, Yuriko is faced with trouble, like the village mayor ‘Father’, who was a samurai belonging to the neighboring clan, was supposed to kill her when DRAMA who is trying to develop the island for his own profits, and her ex-boyfriend, who DRAMA she was a baby, but kidnapped her and fled into the forest instead. Yu now returns to her village chased her all the way to the island. home, where as an excuse to get back into the woods she offers to be Narimichi’s guide. The HORROR Majiru wants to help Yuriko, so together they drink a “secret love remedy”, which HORROR two fall in love, and Narimichi swears he will come back for her. There is a problem, however. makes them giddy. Majiru has always been there to watch over Yuriko, and will Back in Edo, his father has a bride picked out for him... . SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT continue to do so forever more. EFFECT

Directed by Ryuichi Hiroki Written by Sachiko Tanaka, Masato Kato Producer : Takashi Hirano

Production Company : “The Lightning Tree” Production Committee Contact Directed by Yuji Nakae Written by Motoko Nakae, 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 Saburo Tokito etc Phone : +81-3-5571-3085 Starring : Yuki Shibamoto, Honami Kurashita, Tomi Taira, Susumu Taira etc Phone : +81-3-6411-0088 Completion Year : 2010 Running Time : 133min E-mail : [email protected] Completion Year : 2009 Running Time : 105min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE As Nanako returns to her parent’s home on a little island in 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 Okinawa, her grandfather and grandmother Nabbie give her a CULTURE CULTURE warm welcome. However, the grandfather was equally welcoming above. He is particularly happy today, because his younger sister, Kaori, has passed her to a young man that arrived on the same boat, even letting him stay high school entrance exam and is about to move in with him. Flashback to 1988 – a town FAMILY FAMILY at their house. Furthermore, it turns out that the suspicious close to a US air base. Amid the bustle of the untidy shops, Mitsue beams as she hurries to meet her lover. She drags her 8 year-old son, Yotaro, by the hand. 3 year-old Kaoru stands gentleman who also was on the same boat was a man named HISTORY next to her jazz musician father. The unrelated brother and sister meet for the first time. HISTORY SunRa . In the distant past, this very man had promised Unfortunately, the family’s happiness does not last. Their father abandons them and Mitsue engagement with Nabbie, but a prophecy that advised against their is distraught… . In spring of 1991, an exhausted Mitsue breathes her last breath and the marriage had torn their relationship apart… . DRAMA DRAMA children 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 HORROR new chapter of life together? A poignant and unforgettable movie experience… . let the HORROR SE tears flow, your never-ending tears. SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed by Yuji Nakae EFFECT EFFECT Written by Motoko Nakae, Yuji Nakae Directed by Nobuhiro Doi Written by Noriko Yoshida Producer : Shiro Sasaki, Isao Takenaka Producer : Kazuya Hamana, Atsushi Nasuda, Junichi Shindo

Production Company : OFFICE SHIROUS ProductionCompany : "NADA SOU SOU-Tears for You" Contact Starring : Naomi Nishida, Jun Murakami, Tomi Taira, Susumu Taira, Contact Production Committee Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Seijin Noborikawa etc 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 : [email protected] Completion Year : 2006 Running Time : 118min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Shokichi, a nineteen year-old college student, was born in a To buid a new factory, a technician goes to Kurage Island, the south

pigshed on Maja Island, the island of the gods. He meets Wakako, CULTURE most island, to visit the elder of the island. CULTURE the proprietress of a bar with emotional scars that will not heal. In 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. breaking the island’s rules. Meanwhile, the technician is FAMILY FAMILY Wakako’s spirit leaves her body, and she faints. Shokichi resolves obstructed from pulling water from the forbidden well by the to go to Maja Island, a sacred place where the gods congregate, island’s inhabitants, and he falls in love with the island’s daughter and say a prayer to recover her soul. He rallies Wakako’s friends, HISTORY Toriko. The technician falls deeper and deeper into the swamp that HISTORY and the four of them begin their journey to the island. is this island’s attractiveness… .

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HORROR HORROR SE SE Directed by Yoichi Sai SPECIAL SPECIAL Written by Wishing Cheng, Yoichi Sai EFFECT Directed by Shohei Imamura EFFECT Producer : Takenori Sento Written by Shohei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe Production Company : Suncent Cinema Works Producer : Masanori Yamanoi Sales Company : WOWOW Inc. Production Company : Imamura Production

Starring : Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yoshie Hayasaka, Michiko Ameku, Contact Sales Company : Nikkatsu Corporation Contact Mayumi Ueda, Ittoku Kishibe etc 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 175min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE - The Seven Mabui - “See Me ?”“Happy ☆ Pizza”

CULTURE CULTURE Uruma, a young actor who acts as a side character in a hero show, has no athletic “Under The Grandpa’s Umbrella” skills and cannot even do a backflip. His dream is to star as the hero, but his lack of will makes him a nuisance to other members on the show. One day during rehearsal, FAMILY This film shares the side of Okinawa that doesn’t get into the FAMILY the force of a throw makes the Mabui (spirit) of Ryujin Mabuyer to enter his soul. guidebooks in three short pieces. This is the first film of its kind to Ryujin Mabuyer is the legendary hero who protected the people of Okinawa from a HISTORY share Okinawa’s unique spirit and core in the form of entertainment. HISTORY group of villains called Majimun by entering a young person’s soul and turning them The directors, working in Okinawa, explore the unique and profound

into Ryujin Mabuyer. But why did Ryujin Mabuyer choose to come back now? Is it DRAMA culture and independence of the islands. DRAMA because the evil Majimun have secretly returned from their eternal sleep, to turn A film brimming with the delight of subcultures perfect for even

Okinawa into their own kingdom? They try to take back Okinawa from humans, who HORROR those who aren’t fans of Okinawa. HORROR have disregarded the nature on the islands. SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT EFFECT

Directed by Tomoki Sano Directed and Written by Hayashi Toma, Shuhei Fukunaga, Naoya Oshiro Written by Mitsunori Fukuhara Producer : Yuichi Ide Producer : Yuichi Koyano, Hidehisa Yamada, Shinpei Yamagiwa 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 Running Time : 96min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 89min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Murakawa is no an ordinary gangster. He is a very aggressive and violent one. He is as Ryo, a middle school student in the village of Chatan on the main island of

reckless as a yakuza, and he’s gained quite a bit of influence. But he’s getting tired of CULTURE Okinawa, has lived with his imposing father and sister Kanako, who has a CULTURE his way of life and wants to move on. Prodded by his boss Kitajima, and his lieutenant weak constitution, since his mother died when he was young. Takahashi,Murakawa, he is sent to Okinawa to help a gangster group that happens to be One day, Ryo decides to learn karate after becoming captivated by a girl’s FAMILY FAMILY struggling against another mob. Once in Okinawa, however, Murakawa realizes that he beautiful performance at a local Karate dojo, but for some reason his should not have come so far. His arrival provokes the opposing gang, and two of father is against it. His childhood friend Nagi helps him start practicing at Murakawa’s cohorts are murdered by a dynamite explosion in their office. Afraid of HISTORY the dojo in secret, where he meets the young American boy, Kevin, and HISTORY death, several of Murakawa’s henchmen go home. Next there is an impromptu gunfight gradually they begin to get to know each other more and more. in a bar and Murakawa loses more of his followers. In the wake of it, Murakawa and his DRAMA Before long, Ryo comes to learn the secret past of his father’s youth, DRAMA few surviving members decide to lay low in an abandoned house alongside the beach. leading him to make an important decision… .

There, beneath a cobalt sky and the blazing sun, Murakawa and his men are innocently HORROR HORROR play on white sand, where it would seem that time had stopped, when all at once… . SE SE SPECIAL Directed and Written by Naoya Oshiro SPECIAL EFFECT Producer : Nozomu Enoki EFFECT Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Directed and Written by Takeshi Kitano Producer : Masayuki Mori, Hisao Nabeshima, Takio Yoshida Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL CO., LTD. Shochiku Co., Ltd. Starring : Kenta Kamiya, Shinichi Tsuha, Kirara Kakinohana,

Sales Company : Shochiku Co., Ltd. Contact Haruka Toubaru, Syo-n Fukushi, Yuji Shiroma, Contact Starring : Beat Takeshi, Aya Kokumai, Masanobu Katsumura, Shochiku Co., Ltd. Koji Nakamoto, Yuna Matsuda Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Susumu Terashima, Ren Osugi etc Phone : +81-3-5550-1623 Completion Year : 2010 Phone : +81-3-3209-8256 Completion Year : 1993 Running Time : 93min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 99min E-mail: [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE After losing his wife in an accident, a man decides to kill himself. 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 CULTURE wife who watched over him beaming. Kenji Kinjo, whose sole interest has been CULTURE drawn to Koza town, and sets out on a journey. 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 Yuri, and returns to his hometown in Okinawa. Despite fierce opposition from his FAMILY FAMILY where she died. mother, Hanae, the two get married and a child is born. Just as their restaurant He meets the woman who is controlled by her past. business gets going, however, Kinjo declares to his mates that he is giving up the As his wife’s becomes more familiar to him, he begins to move. HISTORY restaurant in order to spend time to revive coral reefs. During a dive after a long HISTORY He promises that this time, he will definitely keep her safe. absence, he saw the sea of Okinawa crying for help under the effect of development The final decision he makes is extremely heart wrenching. DRAMA and global warming. 90% of the coral reefs, which provide homes for many marine DRAMA creatures, had withered away compared to 30 years ago. “ I want to show Yuri the

HORROR beautiful coral reefs just like before.”Kinjo rises in his ardent desire to take up the HORROR SE wildest challenge to cultivate corals and transplant them into the ocean. SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed and Written by Dynamite Taira EFFECT EFFECT Producer : Dynamite Taira Production Company : PROJECT9 LLC. Directed by Toshio Lee Written by Satoshi Suzuki, Tamio Hayashi

Sales Company: PROJECT9 LLC. Producer : Kei Haruna Contact Starring : Toshihisa Nishihira, Yuki Oshiro, Masayoshi Kishimoto, Contact Production Company : Lee Riders Sales Company : SHOWGATE INC. SHOWGATE INC. Licensing Division, Hitomi Yatabe, Hidetoshi Kanzaki, Takahito Taira etc PROJECT9 LLC. Starring : Takashi Okamura, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Hisashi Yoshizawa, International Sales Completion Year : 2015 Phone : +81- 90- 6859-5385 Jun Kunimura, Masami Nagasawa Phone : +81-3-6441-9696 Running Time : 90min E-mail : [email protected] Completion Year : 2010 Running Time : 120min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Beat Takeshi lives the busy, and sometimes surreal, life of a show Giru lives and works hard covered in sugar canes every day at a

biz celebrity. But his blond look alike named Kitano, a shy CULTURE sugar refinery for her little sister Chiru, a prostitute who is unable to CULTURE convenience store cashier, is still an unknown actor waiting for his get customers after being possessed by animal fortune-telling, and big break. After crossing paths with Beat and a series of frustrating her bulimic mother. Giru fell for Mare, a pig’s incarnate and the FAMILY FAMILY auditions, Kitano seems to mysteriously fall into a fantasy state employer’s boss’s foster daughter, and engaged in a restricted act highlighted by aspects of Beat's real life and a violent on-screen the night of the festival. The boss, who was angry at Giru, exiled him persona... . HISTORY to the Forest of Untama, where the Demon of the Forest, Kijimuna, HISTORY lives.

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HORROR HORROR Written, edited and directed by Takeshi Kitano SE SE Producer : Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida SPECIAL SPECIAL Production Company : BANDAI VISUAL, TOKYO FM, DENTSU, TV ASAHI, EFFECT Directed and Written by Go Takamine EFFECT OFFICE KITANO INC. Producer : Junichi Ito, Natsuki Haryu Sales Company : OFFICE KITANO INC. Production Company : PARCO Co.,Ltd. Starring : Beat Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Sales Company : PARCO Co.,Ltd.

Ren Ohsugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe, Contact Starring : Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, Chikaku Aoyama, Contact Akihiro Miwa etc OFFICE KITANO INC. John Sayles etc PARCO Co.,Ltd. Completion Year : 2005 Phone : +81-3-5572-7099 Completion Year : 1989 Phone : +81-3-3477- 8911 Running Time : 107min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 120min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A 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 CULTURE and Ming loses her fiancée, leaving their world with nothing but CULTURE memento, Jifa (an ornamental hairpin). 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 and like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles, FAMILY FAMILY nuclear decontamination operation. In the middle of the operation a hitting walls, and still ends up where he began. Ming calmly creeps massive aftershock causes him to be exposed to the radiation. down a determined path, seemingly moving forward, but towards a Richi, having an old Juri’s heart will face an assassin sends by the HISTORY fatal dead end. No matter how they choose to mourn, the pain and HISTORY government, who’s in mission of hiding Ryuto’s radiation exposure. sorrow is all the same. With the 100th day approaching, they DRAMA wonder if they will ever be able to say goodbye. DRAMA

HORROR HORROR SE SE Directed and Written by Yasunari Izuma SPECIAL SPECIAL Producer : Seijun Toguchi, Yoshihiro Ueno EFFECT Directed by Tom Shu-Yu Lin EFFECT 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 Kohei Ozawa, etc 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: [email protected] Running Time : 96min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Asuka, a new actress who lives in Tokyo visits Aka island in The goat, raised with care for the son’s wedding, runs away

Okinawa, the southern islands of Japan. Junior high-school student CULTURE and meets a young boy. CULTURE Takeshi, the son of the owner of a guest house, is to show her The story takes place in a hamlet in Yanbaru, where old around with his heart pounding. He can’t imagine himself talking to Okinawan scenery still remains. A goat, carefully raised by FAMILY FAMILY someone like her who he only sees on a screen. When she walks an old man for his son’s wedding celebration, runs away on around, she happens to see a Black sika Deer. Since she heard the the day of the wedding, causing an upheaval in the village. As legend about Black sika Deer from Takeshi’s father previously, it HISTORY the goat runs away in frenzy, what it sees is the beautiful HISTORY raises painful memories and accusing voices from her workmate scenery of Okinawa. The goat meets a young boy, and come up to her mind, she gets depressed. Through the day-to-day DRAMA becomes aware of its own fate… . DRAMA life on the island with Takeshi, her mood gradually gets changed.

HORROR HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed and Written by Kenji Tabuchi EFFECT Directed and Written by Ryugo Nakamura EFFECT Producer : Kiyonobu Nakasone, Kensaku Nagata, Satoshi Nakada, Producer : Yuichi Ide Sueko Nago Production Company : Sugar Train Inc. Production Company : G-Grip Sales Company : SUGAR TRAIN Inc. Starring : Rinako Matsuoka, Tomonoshin Iha, Tomoaki Kudaka, Contact Starring : Soji Uehara, Seima Gima, Susumu Taira, Contact Naoko Uehara OCVB Okinawa Film Office Taeko Yoshida, Yayoi Shiroma etc OCVB Okinawa Film Office Completion Year : 2012 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Completion Year : 2008 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Running Time : 15min E-mail: [email protected] Running Time : 10min24sec E-mail: [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Don, the director of a filmmaking club, is obsessed with the making A busy Taiwanese actress, Meiling, is troubled by many incidents

of a horror movie with his friend and cameraman, Tommy. “We CULTURE that happen on her vacation on Okinawa island. It is her first CULTURE have no talent. Let’s stop doing this,” Tommy says to Don, as the experience traveling all by herself. film is almost done. But Don refuses to give up his dream until he She meets a guy who is supposed to be staff at the luxury hotel FAMILY FAMILY creates one great piece. That is when a real zombie appears in she reserved at Naha International Airport, but there is something front of them. Instead of helping the actors who are attacked, wrong... . Her vacation mood is completely ruined... . Tommy can’t help but film the scene. Don’s fear and passion for HISTORY HISTORY filmmaking becomes stronger despite the danger to his staff. Will they finish the movie? Enjoy a tropical zombie movie from Okinawa. DRAMA DRAMA

HORROR HORROR SE SE Directed by Souichi Takayama SPECIAL SPECIAL Written by Shinichiro Chinen EFFECT Directed by Sachiko Fukumoto EFFECT Producer : Souichi Takayama Written by Shinichiro Chinen Production Company : CMC OKINAWA CO.,LTD. Producer : Hiroshi Arakawa, Satoshi Nakada, Kensaku Nagata, Sales Company : RAKUSOSHA CO.,LTD. Ken Ikehara and Sueko Nago

Starring : Benbee, Ai Kawamitsu, kyohei Higa, Contact Production Company : CMC Inc. Contact Tomoji Yamashiro etc RAKUSOSHA CO.,LTD. Starring : Sachiko JUDY Fukumoto, Shogen, Nobuyuki Heian OCVB Okinawa Film Office Completion Year : 2014 Phone : +81-3-3384-7606 Completion Year : 2012 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Running Time : 45min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 19min 57sec E-mail: [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A couple arrives from Europe to stay at a guesthouse in Zamami Ueno, a newly hired writer working at a publishing company in

Village. The husband Chris is a Swiss photographer, and his wife CULTURE Tokyo, is given an assignment to write a feature on Okinawa for a CULTURE Meg is Japanese-American. travel magazine. Her disagreeable boss finds fault with her plans Their conversations are in English and neither understands and she is told that she will be moved to another department. As her FAMILY FAMILY Japanese. Hana Hanashiro, owner of the guesthouse, and Yuhi last chance, she goes to Okinawa to conduct just one day of Hanashiro, Hana’s grandson who works there, only speak coverage. Without a definite aim, and after losing her bag and Japanese. HISTORY becoming penniless, Ueno is taken to a town called Koza city by a HISTORY While Meg grows closer to Hana even though they do not taxi that is passing by. There, she is made fun of by the townspeople. understand each other’s language, Chris is miserable, moody and DRAMA Will she be able to conduct her coverage without problems? Will her DRAMA unable to adjust to the guesthouse or island environment. life change in a trip of just one day? This is a comedy piece

His stubbornly closed heart is awakened by something he sees HORROR interspersed with the charm and humanity of Okinawa. HORROR underwater. SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT Directed and Written by Gori EFFECT Producer : Kana Izumi, Keishi Kuroki Directed and Written by Tsukasa Kishimoto Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Producer : Ken Ikehara Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Production Company : CMC Inc. Contact Starring : Mami Hashimoto, Sakura Ishado, Masao Teruyama, Contact Starring : Daniel López, Haruka Tobaru, Taeko Yoshida, Shogen OCVB Okinawa Film Office Masumi Rodriguez, Jun Omine, Gori Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Completion Year : 2015 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Completion Year :2014 Phone : +81-3-3209-8202 Running Time : 19min 58sec E-mail: [email protected] Running Time : 30min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE After running away from home, Eiichi goes back to his hometown in Museum worker Takeshi Kamiya maneges to find time every day to

Okinawa for the first time in about a decade to announce his CULTURE practice the traditional Ryukyu art of "Kumiodori" and shows the CULTURE marriage. His mother and grandmother don’t approve of his path of the artist as he works and performs on stage. His son, non-Okinawan wife, and give the couple some conditions to make Takeshi had experienced lonely days without his father who was FAMILY FAMILY her a suitable Okinawan woman. almost never home between his timepracticing and appearing on stage, but eventually decides to join his busy father in aiming to be HISTORY a performer of "Kumiodori". That is when he meets "Marumun" - HISTORY the embodiment of traditional arts, which dwells in the theatre.

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Directed by Tsukasa Kishimoto Written by Kanae Kochi, Tsukasa Kishimoto Directed and Written by Chikako Yamashiro, Atsushi Sunagawa Producer : OCVB Okinawa Film Office Production Company : CMC Inc. Production Company : CMC Inc. Contact Starring : Takeshi Kamiya, Takenoshin Kamiya, Sayuri Chibana, Contact Starring : Akira Ota, Moeko Fukuda, Taeko Yoshida OCVB Okinawa Film Office Michihiko Kakazu etc OCVB Okinawa Film Office Completion Year : 2011 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Completion Year : 2014 Tel. : +81-98-859-6162 Running Time : 26min E-mail: [email protected] Running Time : 19min 58sec E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Ayumi is 34 years old and has been working as an information call Izo 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 CULTURE and stuck in a dead-end office, he isn't even interested in CULTURE anyone can find whatever they want on the internet, inquiries have Tomigusuku at all. In spite of this, he is appointed to lead a tourism dropped markedly. The phone doesn’t ring much anymore. Ayumi is project. Naturally, he is not at all motivated, but his co-workers get FAMILY FAMILY plagued by feelings of emptiness and loneliness. She responds to on moving the project ahead, and a costumed mascot character is only one or two calls a day, routine inquiries from older people who developed. He is encouraged by elementary school student, and the use the telephone as their source for information. One day, Ayumi is HISTORY work continues. While working reluctantly on his job, he travels all HISTORY summoned along with several of her coworkers by her boss to be around Tomigusuku city every day. Can such a person make the suddenly told she would be laid off. She returns to her parents’ DRAMA Tomigusuku tourism project a success? DRAMA house as if drawn there for some reason. When she arrives, her

father, with whom she hadn’t had any contact in years, is waiting. HORROR HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT EFFECT

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 Production Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency Co., Ltd. Sales Company : Yoshimoto Creative Agency CO., LTD. Starring : Erika, Masahiro Arakaki, Tamotsu Oshiro, Contact Starring : Benbee, Tomoji Yamashiro, Kengo Higa, Contact Tsubu Mustard Ashimine OCVB Okinawa Film Office Natsumi Ikema, Mayumi Ueda, Hiroki Kawata 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: [email protected] Running Time : 30min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Kunigami village is located in the northernmost of Okinawa. In the Yanbaru forest, A documentary about residents of a shopping district in Okinawa

elementary school student Manabu takes his friends Yuna and Hana, and his grandfather, CULTURE Prefecture's Naha City. It records the volunteers who strive to CULTURE Mayor Masahide, who hit his head only to lose his memory except when he was 5 year revitalize the market with "music" as their keyword. olds, he protected the Okinawa rail. After six months of no recovery, Yuna and Hana get At a time when the hollowing out of cities is being decried, there FAMILY FAMILY depressed as the mayoral inauguration day approaches for Deputy Mayor Maeda, who are people who are trying to restore urban vitality. At the wants to demolish the Okinawa rail facilities to build a resort hotel. The problems Sakae-machi market in Okinawa Prefecture's Naha City, continue to pile up as the TV news reports that poachers are in the area... . Without even HISTORY volunteers aim to revitalize the shopping area with their music. HISTORY a clue as how to proceed, Manabu and his friends face a difficult challenge. Then, one The market gradually comes to life with events like the day, magazine writer Matsuda and photographer Yano learn of the activities of Manabu DRAMA Sakae-machi Market Night Stall Festival. DRAMA and his friends and come from Tokyo to interview them. Gori's third film as director of a A feature film directorial debut for Nitta Yoshitaka.

Local Origination Project film is a suspense comedy of "family love" set in Kunigami HORROR HORROR village. Will Manabu and his friends be able to save the Okinawa rail? And will the SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL memory of Masahide return? EFFECT EFFECT

Directed and Written by Gori 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 Kanako Fukuda, Satoshi Kadekaru Phone : +81-3-3209-8300 Completion Year : 2012 Phone : +81-90-3196-4739 Completion Year : 2015 Running Time : 34min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 89min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A documentary that zooms in on the activities of those who bet Documentary about students from Sekitoku Girl's High School who

their lives on reviving a traditional art, “Edo Nobori,” which used CULTURE cared for wounded soldiers during the Battle of Okinawa at the close of CULTURE to be presented by the Ryuku delegation to the government for the Pacific War. The bitter experiences of these girls who survived with over 200 years until 160 years ago, as well as the history and minimal wartime deaths comes to life through testimony by those who FAMILY FAMILY culture of Ryuku. were in the student corps. The twenty-five members of the "Fuji Student Corps" from Sekitoku Girl's School were mobilized to care for HISTORY wounded soldiers. The student corps worked themselves to the bone at HISTORY a field hospital, but get dissolution orders as battle conditions DRAMA deteriorate. The circumstances at that time emerge through the DRAMA remaining student corps members who survived the Battle of Okinawa.

HORROR HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL Directed by Yoshiaki Hongou EFFECT EFFECT Producer : Shinya Sueyoshi, Yoshinori Yona Production Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD. Directed by Gakuya Nomura Sales Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD. Production Company : Kaiensha Inc.

Starring : Uzagakuhukugen Ensoukenkyukai, Shizue Matayoshi, Contact Sales Company : Kaiensha Inc. Contact Etsuko Higa etc 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 48min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE The 21st century would be an age when "gentle spirituality" will be Kudaka Island is a half-agricultural and half-fishing remote island where the

needed in all aspects of the life of mankind. It will be our critical task CULTURE men run the fishing industry and the women do the agriculture. Life on the CULTURE to nurture it, not only in education, culture and art, but in those fields small island is not easy. They share the scarce water and share the land fairly that have traditionally been far removed from spirituality, such as with an allotment system. When the boys become men, they all go out the sea. FAMILY FAMILY politics, economics or science. Because each one of us is beginning The women come together around the rituals, praying for the safety of the to realize that this lack of spirituality and man's actions as a result of journeying men and protection of the island. The men are fishermen and it are putting the future of all lives on the earth in peril. HISTORY travelers, and the women are priestesses who protect them... . HISTORY Spirituality, simply put, is the ability to feel within ourselves in the Kudaka Island has long been known as the island of the gods, and 30 yearly course of our daily life that we are indeed being kept alive, here and DRAMA rituals embedded into island life are solemnly passed down by the islanders DRAMA now, as a part of this singular, greater life of the Mother Earth, Gaia. 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. HORROR Kudaka Island’s greatest ritual. During Izaihou, women from the ages of 30 to HORROR SE 41 who were born on and live on the island become gods. It is held over a SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT period of a little more than a month, but usually focused on four days. EFFECT

Directed and Written by Jin Tatsumura Producer : Yukari Tatsumura, Akira Maejima ProductionCompany : Jin Tatsumura Office Inc. Directed by Gakuya Nomura

Sales Company : Jin Tatsumura Office Inc. 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 49min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Daniel López didn't know anything about Okinawa. On April 1st of 1945, the American army landed on the Okinawa mainland.

Seduced by these southern Japanese islands, once an independent CULTURE The following Okinawa battles lasted for 12 weeks and 1 out of every 4 CULTURE kingdom, he left Switzerland to settle there. 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 through countless interviews to American veterans who fought on the FAMILY FAMILY questioning on the archipelago's identity threatened by the U.S. battlefields, Japanese veterans, and Okinawa residents, together with military presence and an excessive urban development. recorded videos stored in the US National Archives, taken by the To understand the locals' peaceful resistance, he takes us inside HISTORY American soldiers. HISTORY Okinawa on the path to discovering a local belief with inspirational The movie also depicts the history of discrimination and oppression in scope. DRAMA Okinawa, which has been forced by Japan and the USA to bear the burden DRAMA of the American military base since the days of post-war American rule to

HORROR today. It reveals the roots of Okinawa residents’ deep despair and anger, HORROR SE which lead to the recent moving of the base to Henoko Bay. SE Directed and Written by Daniel López SPECIAL SPECIAL Producer : Takako Miyahira, Pierre-Alain Meier, Yuri Yoshimura Gagnon, EFFECT EFFECT Claude Gagnon Directed by John Junkerman Production Company : Thelma Film AG, Kukuru Vision Inc. Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami Sales Company : Kukuru Vision Inc. Production Company : Siglo, Ltd.

Starring : Rieko Shinjo, Morito Itoman, Minoru Kinjo, Seibin Itoman, Contact Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd. Contact Yasuhiro Uema etc 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 148min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Taking place 20 years ago on a wild but beautiful Yonaguni Island, an elderly fisherman Jo Hoko’s Perspective chases a huge swordfish weighing 200 kilograms in his sabani, a small, traditional CULTURE This movie was created to honor the 40th anniversary since the restoration CULTURE Okinawan boat. Supported by the other island residents, he leaves his wife to go out to of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, and the return of Okinawa the sea, which he loves. Despite having struggled for a long time to bring in a good FAMILY to Japan. The director is Yoshiaki Hongo, the creator of the hit documentary FAMILY haul, the old man has never forgotten his respect for nature or his fisherman’s pride, movie released two years ago, “Edo Nobori – The Spirit of Ryuku Japan.” By and after one year, he finally manages to overcome and capture the swordfish. using many historic documents to reenact Shuri Castle the art from the The film manages to capture the unique culture of Yonaguni Island and the way that HISTORY HISTORY dynasty eras, lost due to the end of the kingdom and battles in Okinawa, and time seems to flow leisurely there. From the first planning stages, it took five years for by rethinking the history, culture, and entertainment of Ryuku from the the film to be completed, with the actual filming taking place over the span of one year. DRAMA DRAMA 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 old lost history of cultural exchange and trade between Japan’s Ryuku and fisherman went out to sea in his sabani, just like he always did. However, this time, HORROR HORROR China that took place then, and puts the present day into a new perspective. when he tried to capture another large fish, thinking that it was a swordfish again, he SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL was instead dragged under the water. There is no doubt that this old man, who lived EFFECT EFFECT off the sea and who eventually returned to the sea, is the true protagonist of this Directed and Written by Yoshiaki Hongou movie, “The Old Man and The Sea,” both in the movie and in real life. Producer : Shinya Sueyoshi Production Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD.

Contact Sales Company : Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD. Contact Directed by John Junkerman Producer : Tetsujiro Yamagami Siglo, Ltd. Starring : Wu Yang-Hua, Kurayoshi Takara, Nobuo Harada etc Cinema-Okinawa CO.,LTD. Production Company : Siglo, Ltd., Sales Company : Siglo, Ltd. Phone : +81-3-5343-3101 Completion Year : 2013 Phone : +81-98-857-5533 Starring : Shigeru Itokazu Completion Year : 1990 Running Time : 98min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 71min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A war survivor, Michiko Miyagi couldn’t talk about it for 44 years. The year after the war ended, a group of young people from the

She thought she would be killed by the Japanese government if she CULTURE Shiraho area of Ishigaki Island gathered together to form a band CULTURE talked about it. A surgeon handed a syringe to her to give an called the “Shirayuri Club.” Using handmade western instruments, injection to a wounded soldier in the bomb shelter. She found out it they sang modern Showa-era pop songs. 56 years pass by. Despite FAMILY FAMILY had poison in it later. Japanese government and military were now having an average age of 70, the members of the Shirayuri secretive. Nothing was told to those student corps. Secchan was Club continue to perform their songs on the southern island. One the only one she witnessed the moment of her passing, that’s why HISTORY day, they are excited to hear that they have been invited to perform HISTORY she could never forget about her. She doesn’t know how and where in Tokyo. Still young at heart, the ever-mischievous members of the in the field the other friends were killed. 555 high school girls were DRAMA Shirayuri Club put on a beautiful show as they dance and sing in DRAMA drafted to become nurses in Okinawa during WWII. 194 were killed. Tokyo, just as they would do at home. A life without music isn’t

Michiko Miyagi talks about her life-changing experiences. HORROR living at all! HORROR SE SE SPECIAL SPECIAL EFFECT EFFECT

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 : [email protected] Running Time : 90min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE A documentary film featuring a married couple living together with the On Miyako islands, 300km south of Okinawa, people have, for centuries,

vast nature of Iriomotejima Island in Okinawa. Ishigaki Akiko, a CULTURE remembered their history of suffering and hardship under heavy taxation. CULTURE fabric-dyeing artist who spins her own threads, dyes them into brilliant However, the people have kept their strong faith in their Gods alive. colors using native plants and weaves beautiful fabrics, and her husband Selected shamanistic women continue to pray and sing to their Gods in FAMILY FAMILY Ishigaki Kinsei who loves the songs and festivals of their island. The film their special, sacred places called Utaki. These spiritual songs are the closely focuses on the environmental issues of the island while featuring origins of their vibrant & flourishing folk-song traditions. The songs tell the simple lifestyle of the couple deeply rooted in the area. The spiritual HISTORY of their harsh daily lives and the crises in their religion. But this precious HISTORY images with "color" as their theme - blue ocean, green trees, white raw culture that could follow to the root of Japan is in a crisis of the silk, navy hand-dyed fabrics - leave a great impression on the viewers. DRAMA extinction for the change of their life style. DRAMA

HORROR HORROR Directed by Ayako Mogi SE SE Producer : Takashi Serizawa, Kumi Aizawa, Werner Penzel , SPECIAL SPECIAL Patolis Nesson EFFECT EFFECT Production Company : silent voice Limited Liability Partnership, Directed by Koichi Onishi Werner Penzel Film Production, Producer : Koichi Onishi les films du présent Production Company : Koichi Onishi Film Office

Sales Company : silent voice Limited Liability Partnership Contact 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. People in Sonai village Completion Tel : +81-3-3584-0286 Completion Year : 2011 Phone: +81-90-9102-8671 Year : 2009 Running Time : 80min E-mail : [email protected] Running Time : 104min E-mail: [email protected]

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NATURE NATURE Tomoko Uehara was attracted to the world of folk music since she Documentary about the life of news cameraman Ishikawa Bunyo,

was 6 years old. Teruya Rinken was born as the 3rd generation of a CULTURE who brought the Vietnam War to the world. Planned, produced and CULTURE family of musicians. The two meet and form the one and only directed by Omiya Koichi, who earned acclaim for his directorial Okinawan pop band, “Rinken Band.” Their style integrates traditional debut TADAIMA-I'm home, a place for everyone. After returning FAMILY FAMILY Okinawan instruments, such as sanshin ( Okinawa-style banjo-like home from Vietnam, Ishikawa continued documenting his home instrument ) and island drums, with modern instruments such as turf in Okinawa. The crew accompanies the 75-year-old Ishikawa drums, keyboard, and bass guitar skillfully. Through her encounter HISTORY on visits to Vietnam and Okinawa as he reflects on his past HISTORY with Teruya Rinken and instruments that are completely different experiences. And, he asks the audience what war is, and what it from the ones she knew before, Tomoko Uehara’s potential as a DRAMA means to live. DRAMA singer grows infinitely… .

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Sales Company : ajima inc. Contact Sales Company : TOFOO, LLC. Contact Starring : Tomoko Uehara, Rinken Teruya, Rinken Band ajima 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 : [email protected] Running Time : 109min E-mail : [email protected]

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NATURE August 2004, the full moon casts dark shadows in the dead of the

night, "Okinawan Horror Stories" was born… . A three part omnibus CULTURE drama containing stories based on local traditions and superstitions was enthusiastically received as a new style of horror FAMILY entertainment. 10 years on, Okinawan horror, from the southernmost extremity of Japan, is still going strong with 27 productions from ambitious creators. HISTORY

Episode DRAMA Daruma-doll fell down ( Series 1 ), Glasses ( Series 3 ), Dress (Series 5), a Haunted House ( Series 7 ), Kijimuna island ( Series 8 ) etc HORROR SE SPECIAL “Glasses” EFFECT Directed by Souichi Takayama Producer : Nobuji Omori Production Company : Ryukyu Broadcasting Corp.

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 : [email protected]

Locations Japan's main island Index Go 1,700 km Northeast in Okinawa to reach Japan’s mainland A K S Away with Words 03 KAMUI 20 Seventeen Short Lived 61 Karakara 21 Shirayuri Club Goes to TOKYO 62

B Katabui 57 Silent Color Silent Voice 63 Okinawa prefecture Boiling Point 04 Kerama Blue 45 Sketches of Myahk 64 The Kumiodori "Nidou Tekiuchi" 22 SONATINE 33 Magnification C The Kumiodori "Shushin Kaneiri" 23 Song of Ajima 65 The Catcher on the Shore 05 A Song of Gondola 34

Northern Area Chasuke's Journey 06 L Stay 35 Cheers from Heaven 07 Leaving on the 15th Spring 24 Sunshine Ahead 36 Nakijin Village The Crying Wind 08 Life Sucks 46 Sweets Life 50 MotobuTown The Lightning Tree 25

D T Dancing Karate Kid 09 M TAKESHIS' 37 Central Area The Deer in Me 41 A Midsummer's Okinawan Dream 26 Onna Village Dolphin Blue 10 Mother of the Groom 47 U Uruma City Downtown Dance 52 Untamagiru 38 N Okinawa City E Nabbie's Love 27 V Chatan Town Kerama Islands Edonobori - The Spirit of Ryukyu - 53 Nada Sou Sou -Tears for you 28 The Voyage of Bunyo Ishikawa 66 Kume Island Naha City F O Y Fuji Students 54 Okinawa The Afterburn 58 Yanbaru Kyo! Kyo! Kyo! 51 Itoman City Nanjo City FURIMUN in Okinawa 11 Okinawan Horror stories 67 Southern Area The Old Man and the Sea 59 Z G ZAＭPA 39 Gaia Symphony NO.4 55 P ZINNIA FLOWER 40 GAMA Gettou no Hana 12 The path of KUMIODORI 48

Go 410km Northeast Goat-Walking 42 The Pig’s Retribution 29 to reach main island of Okinawa A GOOD HUSBAND 13 The Profound Desires of the Gods 30

Yaeyama Islands H R Ishigaki Island Halser Acre The Movie Acres 14 RUMAH 49 Yonaguni Island Haruka naru Koushien 15 Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie - The Seven Mabui - 31 Hello Zombi 43 Ryukyu Cowboy Films : “See Me?” “Happy Pizza” ☆ 32 “Under The Grandpa’s Umbrella” Go 250km Northwest Hotel Hibiscus 16 to reach Taiwan Go 340km West The Ryukyu Kingdom from Jo Hoko’s Perspective 60 to reach main island How to make a Penguin Pair 17 Hateruma Island of Okinawa Kita daitou I Island Ikinai 18 Indigo Love 44 Go 290km Northeast It was so bright I couldn’t see it. to reach main island of Okinawa 19 Slowly I blinked and blinked again. Minami daitou Miyako Island Izaihou 56 Tarama Island Island

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Planning and production by OCVB Okinawa Film Office

Okinawa Industrial Support Center 2F, 1831-1 Oroku, Naha City Okinawa, 901-0152 JAPAN TEL: +81-98-859-6162 FAX: +81-98-859-6221 E-Mail: [email protected] http://filmoffice.ocvb.or.jp/en

Published by Okinawa Conventions&Visitors Bureau

Produced by Okinawa Prefectural Government

Production Support by ADOP, INC.

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