13th OKINAWA INTERNATIONAL MOVIE FESTIVAL

Restart

Director

Hiroshi Shibagawa

Country

Japan

Mio, a high school student in the countryside of Shimokawa, Hokkaido, moves to Tokyo after graduating from high school with dreams of becoming a singer-songwrit・・・

The Women

Director

Nobuteru Uchida

Country

Japan

The main character, Misaki, works at a local daycare center for school children while taking care of her mother. Although she graduated from a university in Tok・・・

Afterimage

Director

TSUKASA KISHIMOTO

Country

Japan

This is the latest film by Tsukasa Kishimoto who directed Ryujin Mabuyer, Halser Acre The Movie ACRES, The Man Who Changed Okinawa, and Kokoro, odoru. He contin・・・

MADE IN HEAVEN

Director

NASATO TANNO

Country

Japan

Soseki Shida, a novelist who died in a car accident, is reunited with his beloved wife Sakiko in heaven. However, Soseki has lost his memory of his wife. While ・・・

ZAMAMI- The sea the world falls in love with.

Director

REIKI TSUNO

Country

Japan

Beautiful islands surrounded by the world's (Asia's) most transparent seas and leading coral reefs. Referred to as "Kerama Blue", this is a sea that divers all ・・・

Enjiru Onna

Director

Toshiyuki Teruya

Country

Japan

The movie takes place in Ogimi, Okinawa. Akira Kamiya, the owner of a local construction company, was an ideal boss who was well-liked by his employees. However・・・

So? Tsurumi

Director

Atsushi Watanabe

Country

Japan

At Nakadori Shopping Street in Tsurumi, posters about the Okinawa Sumo Competition, which will be held soon, are put up all over the place. Ryuji, working at a ・・・

#Houjyoudu Cantata

Director

Masaaki Kanamori

Country

Japan

Nago Furuta (Hino Mimura), who lives in a tranquil fishing town in Imizu City in Toyama Prefecture, hopes to move to Tokyo after graduating from high school and・・・

The Buzz of Cicadas

Director

Jungo Kitamura

Country

Japan

Nao is looking for a man with a clue about the letter from her late mother. On the journey, she falls in front of a temple, when a Buddhist monk at the temple, ・・・

Bullfight Girl

Director

Hitoshi Maehira

Country

Japan

Located in the central part of the main island of Okinawa, Uruma City has been garnering attention as an area popular for bullfighting. The main character, Tomo・・・

Konna Kikuakari no Yoruni

Director

Sho Matsuda (Hatsukoi Cro-Magnon)

Country

Japan

This is a human-interest comedy centered on the story of Teppei, a young man working in farming, and his childhood friend Satsuki, who has returned to her homet・・・

Tamano Eizoshishu: Nagisa no Bicycle

Director

Tetsuichirou Tsuta

Country

Japan

Moon Child

Director

Yusuke Koroyasu

Country

Japan

Keisuke Yasuda is a filmmaker from Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, who has been barely getting by making promotional videos for companies in Tokyo. Yamamoto, ・・・

Yukari

Director

Kazutoshi Inudo

Country

Japan

Yukari had moved to Tokyo when she got married, but after divorcing she moves back to her home town of Nanyo, Yamagata. Yukari doesn't enjoy the rumors and scru・・・

The Refrain in Colors

Director

Takeshi Sone

Country

Japan

With her dream of becoming a singer broken, Futaba returns to her hometown. She has a strange experience with a woman at the station. The moment she begins to t・・・

A Universe of Two

Director

Teppei Isobe

Country

Japan

Iwaki City, Fukushima. The last day in Iwaki of Yume (20) who plans to go to Tokyo to be a photographer. Yume decides to go to the sea, where she hasn't been in・・・

Nirai no Oka - A Song of Gondola

Director

Tatsuya Oshiro

Country

Japan

In Chatan, in the central part of the main island of Okinawa, junior high school student Ryo, whose mother died when he was young, lives with his slightly scary・・・

Haizai - Kamisama no Iutori

Director

SYUHEI FUKUNAGA

Country

Japan

Three stories happen at "Depot Island", a popular spot on Mihama beach in Chatan, Okinawa. A woman is mistaken for Yuta and taken to the Yakuza, a floating tour・・・

Jamaica Diary - An Unbelievable True Story

Director

KIYOTAKA TAMIYA

Country

Japan

A young man who since childhood has felt "someday I should go abroad..." decides to leave Japan. He heads to the fascinating island of Jamaica in the Caribbean.・・・

The STAR SAND

Director

Roger Pulvers

Country

Japan

April 1945, Okinawa. To not kill was timid. To not fight was cowardly. Wishing for peace was dangerous.

Memories of Whale Island

Director

YUJI MAKINO

Country

Japan

Aimi (Ito Ohno) moves to Okinawa and meets Vietnamese trainee Koa (Win Morisaki) at a trading partner of the travel agency that she works at. Koa is fascinated ・・・

Okinawa in 8mm Film Revived in Digital

Country

Japan

This popular event that has become a regular feature of the film festival is back again, this time featuring 8mm footage of rare and nostalgic scenes of Okinawa・・・

QUEEN OF OKINAWAN COMEDY NEVER DIES

Director

TAKANORI NODA

Country

Japan

Sachiko, Okinawa's greatest entertainer, retires with a bang... and then promptly dies! But then, to everyone's surprise, she comes back as a ghost. It seems th・・・

Eisa Dondon

Director

Tsukasa Kishimoto

Country

Japan

An Eisa hero drama depicting a son who came back to Okinawa with a love of traditional Eisa dancing and who repeatedly collides with those around him as Preside・・・

NAGISA

Director

Toshiyuki Teruya (Gori)

Country

Japan

Megumi is a single women who grows tired of living in the city and arrives at the coastal village of Onna in Okinawa. Once there, she immediately feels the inno・・・

The Chosen One

Director

Toshiyuki Teruya

Country

Japan

On a cruise ship from Taiwan to Ishigaki Island, a Taiwanese youth (Yenda Chen) is self-reflecting starring at a letter. "Am I the chosen one?" Set on Ishigaki ・・・

Friends of the Minatogawa Man

Director

Takayuki Nakama

Country

Japan

"We recently formed a band" Yaese Town Junior high school students Shingo, Peko, Seijun, and Hito have a friend called Dai-chan, from the Paleolithic era. The f・・・

Naha NAHA Na-fa!

Director

Yasushi Kyan

Country

Japan

A collection of three stories set in Naha: ●Love in a city market! Natsumi is a high school girl that works part time at a city market and falls for university・・・

Jinon Shichun

Director

Keigo Matsuda

Country

Japan

Freelance photographer Jinon is shooting photos of various places around Ginowan City for a pamphlet for the city. At Morikawa Park, he meets Shizuku, who is da・・・

Kunisada Cyuji

Director

Shozo Makino

Country

Japan

CHIKEMURI KOUJINYAMA

Director

Kichiro Tsuji

Country

Japan

Sentaro Kurahashi, who launched Shinkokugeki together with Shojiro Sawada left the group due to illness, and the second Shinkokugeki was launched in Osaka. From・・・

ET OUT AND GET UNDER

Director

Hal Roach

Country

USA

Harold Lloyd is one of the three kings of comedy, standing alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Many of his films feature the familiar boater hats and c・・・

FROM HAND TO MOUTH

Director

Hal Roach

Country

USA

A silent comedy by Harold Lloyd, one of the three great kings of comedy. It can be said to be a prototype with the same set up as "For Heaven's Sake" (1926), wh・・・

Othello, ou le More de Venise

Director

Ugo Falena

Country

Italy

One of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, "Othello" depicts human weakness and stupidity with racism at it's root, showing how easy it is to fall into suspicio・・・

The King of Rowing

Director

Tomu Uchida

Country

Japan

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This year marks 50 years from his death. Director Uchida took on epics such as "Miyamoto Musashi" and "Kiga Kaik・・・

Treasured Box from Toy Film -The Eccentric-

Country

Japan

"The Eccentric", an animated series from the Tresured Toy Film Box, will be shown from the Toy Movie Museum collection. 5 pieces have been selected, "Sunakemuri・・・

Treasured Box from Toy Film -The Folklore-

Country

Japan

"The Folklore", an animated series from the Toy Film Tresured Box, will be shown from the Toy Movie Museum collection. 5 pieces have been selected, "Urashima Ta・・・

Ridiculous I

Director

Tenta Kikuzawa

Country

Japan

This is a story of conflict. It is a story of conflict between man and woman, between friends, between black and white depicted in monochrome. The film portrays・・・

Who is she

Country

Taiwan

Faye attracts a female student, Jaye's attention after a demonstration on AI-based facial replacement technology. Together they pull a prank that forever alters・・・

Be Here Now

Director

Tatsuya Nishimoto

Country

Japan

Omura is a graduate student who has been living a life of treating women poorly with no chance at getting ahead. One day, he receives news of the death of an ol・・・

PARALLEL

Director

DAIKI TANAKA

Country

Japan

Mai was abused by her parents when she was a child, and unable to come to terms with her past, she spends her days just hanging out with her best friend Kana, l・・・