Okinawa Movies

  • 2014
    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate

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

    Tee: The True Spirit of Okinawan Karate
  • 1992
    Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack

    Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack

    Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack

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    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,...

    Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
  • 2004
    Revival Blues

    Revival Blues

    Revival Blues

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    Revival Blues
  • 2009
    The First Breath of Tengan Rei

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei

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

    The First Breath of Tengan Rei
  • 1991
    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa

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    In the final hours of the Pacific War, Okinawa was the destination for Korean men conscripted as “military laborers” and Korean women...

    Song of Arirang - Voices from Okinawa
  • 1971
    Horizon

    Horizon

    Horizon

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

    Horizon