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- DirectorYûji NakaeStarsNaomi NishidaJun MurakamiTomi TairaThe film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the grand-daughter of Nabbie and a young Japanese who just came to visit the little island. As the film evolves with the more or less ordinary events of the little island's inhabitant's more or less ordinary life, the story behind Nabbie's life gets more and more obvious. It's a surprise to most everyone involved in one or the other way.
- DirectorYûji NakaeStarsHonami KurashitaMasao TeruyaSôkô WadaHoteru haibisukasu depicts a summer at a small run down hotel in Okinawa through the eyes of Mieko, the youngest daughter of the hotels extraordinarily international family.
- DirectorGo TakamineStarsKaoru KobayashiChikako AoyamaJohn SaylesAfter learning the boss's daughter is a shape shifting pig, an Okinawa sugar cane worker aided by a forest spirit becomes a Robin Hood type getting arms for guerillas against both the US and the Japanese.
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKomaki KuriharaYûko KotegawaYoshiko TanakaStory follows a group of high school girls trained as nurses during World War II who witness the horrors of war first-hand on Okinawa.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsRentarô MikuniChôichirô KawarasakiHideko OkiyamaAn engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsAnna NakagawaRyo IshibashiLeona HirotaDuring the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs.
- DirectorAmon MiyamotoStarsMark BunnellClaude MakiChristopher T. NelsonIn the 1960s Okinawa was us under American military occupation. Young Takeshi leads a passive go-with-the-flow existence, working as a bartender at a bar called Sekai where his ex-girlfriend Michi also worked. When Takeshi launches a flare bomb during a military blackout, expressing his frustration with the American military as well as himself, he encounters a mysterious boy with no name. He undergoes various changes living with him, but then an event occurs which will destroy Takeshi's identity to the very roots...
- DirectorYôichi SaiStarsMichiko AmekuYoshie HayasakaIttoku KishibeA virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.