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 FEATURE FILM FEATURE SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER NO IMAGE ©1998 TimeWarp Inc. ©1990 Shochiku Co., Ltd./BANDAI VIDUAL CO., LTD. Away with Words Boiling Point 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] 03 04 FEATURE FILM FEATURE FEATURE FILM FEATURE SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER ©2010 "The Catcher on the Shore" Production Committee ©2015 ” Chaske’s Journey” Production Committee The Catcher on the Shore Chasuke’s Journey 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] 05 06 FEATURE FILM FEATURE FEATURE FILM FEATURE SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER ©2011” Cheers from Heaven” Film Committee ©2004 SIGLO Cheers from Heaven The Crying Wind 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] 07 08 FEATURE FILM FEATURE FEATURE FILM FEATURE SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER SHORT FILMSHORT DOCUMENTARY OTHER ©2013 TOEI VIDEO/AMAZON LATERNA ©2007 “Dolphin Blue” Production Committee, Photo by Rinko Kawauchi Dancing Karate Kid Dolphin Blue 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.