Uchina Movies ~Journey to Special Locations~

Okinawa’s landscape has been fueling the spark of imagination of a lot of people by wide sky, blue oceans, rich mangrove forests and such.

In the newly established program, “Uchina Movies ~Journey to Special Location~”, best selection films that are shot in attractive Okinawan location will be screened. In addition, guests are invited after the screening to introduce the landscape of Okinawa in the films.

What had changed in the town, the island, or the place? Some has changed, some has not. Changed or not, you feel like you are in the film if you go to the place.

It is because, it is the place only for you that has added the memories of the film. People who participated in this program must feel the desire to go to the location.

This program enhances brand new way of watching films. We will be glad if we help you find your unique tourist route.

Uchina Movies ~Journey to Special Location~ Works

©1980 Matsutake K.K.

Tora's Tropical Fever

Director
Yoji Yamada
Year
1980
Starring
Kiyoshi Atsumi, Ruriko Asaoka, Chieko Baisho

Sypnosis

Lily, the lounge singer with whom Tora-san fell in love in film 11 (Tora-san's Forget Me Not, 1973) and film 15 (Tora-san's Rise and Fall, 1975) sends Tora-san a letter informing him that she is terminally ill. Tora-san rushes to Okinawa—taking his first plane trip in the process—to be at her side and nurse her to health.

Writer-director Yoji Yamada reportedly considers Tora's Tropical Fever his own favorite of the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series films.[5] The Japan Academy awarded Yamada and co-writer Yoshitaka Asama Best Screenplay for the film.

©1984 Shochiku/Matsutake K.K.

The Miracle of Joe Petrel

Director
Toshiya Fujita
Year
1984
Starring
Saburō Tokitō,　Miwako Fujitani,　Kunie Tanaka

Sypnosis

Joe Petrel (Umitsubame Joe) is a half-Filipino, half-Okinawan gangster who escapes to the Philippines after killing a mob boss. The film chronicles his misadventures with underworld characters and the police.

©1990 バンダイビジュアル／松竹株式会社

Boiling Point

Director
Takeshi Kitano, Minoru Iizuka
Year
1990
Starring
Beat Takeshi

Sypnosis

Ono Masahiko starred as a shiftless, inattentive young man, a member of a losing local baseball team, whose coach is threatened and attacked by a local yakuza. He teams up with a friend to go to Okinawa to purchase guns so they can get revenge. Kitano plays psychotic yakuza named Uehara, who befriends them upon their arrival in Okinawa. Uehara has his own agenda of revenge, and as the story progresses the two boys drift further into his orbit, with unsettling results.