Tanme
「ナビィの恋」「ホテル・ハイビスカス」の中江裕司監督が、シェイクスピアの「真夏の夜の夢」を翻案し、沖縄の小さな離島を舞台に描くラブコメディ。不倫の恋に疲れて東京から故郷の沖縄の小さな島、世嘉冨（ゆがふ）島に戻ってきたゆり子。そんな彼女を追って、不倫相手やその妻もやってきて小さな島は大騒動に。島の精霊マジルーは、恋の秘薬を振りまいて、ゆり子の身を守ろうとするが……。主演はNHK大河ドラマ「風林火山」の柴本幸。
Purusu Riri
“スシ王子”の異名を取る若き天才寿司職人の米寿司は、マンハッタンで店を出すシャリの達人・俵源五郎に弟子入りするためニューヨークへ。しかし、源五郎の寿司屋「八十八」は、ニューヨークの寿司屋を牛耳るミスター・リンと配下のペペロンチーノ一味に狙われていた……。
Kanako joins a high school where she is reunited with her childhood friend, Eijun. Following the idea of Seiryo, Kanako's elder brother, they form a band. They aim to perform at the school festival, however, they are unable to get through the audition. The following year, they perform at a local music event, Yaeyama Band Tengoku, under a new band name.
2001年、沖縄本島。飲食店を経営したいという夢を持ちながら懸命に働く21歳の青年、新垣洋太郎のもとへ、本島の高校に合格した妹のカオルが、親戚と暮らしていた島を離れてやって来る。洋太郎が8歳の時、彼の母親、光江がカオルの父親と再婚したことから洋太郎とカオルは兄妹になったが、やがてカオルの父親は失踪し、光江も病気で他界した。互いに助け合いながら懸命に生きてきた兄妹は、同居生活をスタートさせる。
Mieko's Grandmother
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her internatioanl family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent.
Nabbie Agarikinjo
Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni after a long absence.
Tsuru is a roving broadcaster and collector of singing-and-dancing DNA samples, kept in her lunchbox. One day she finds an abandoned script (its penniless author has fled to Taiwan in search of a woman) and so she moves into the writer's house and sets about staging it as a play.
An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island to consult a spiritualist about the loss of her voice. The second story, 'Haruko & Hideyoshi' concerns an outsider to the island who is tricked into marrying an island girl after visiting the island god of fertility with her. The final story, 'Bomb Kids' concerns two kids in a punk band who set out to win (or steal) a large amount of money. Linking these stories is the ongoing search for an unexploded WWII bomb, a large model pineapple, and the possibility of a hotel development coming to the island...
A mother and her daughter move from the urban sprawl of Tokyo to the remote island of Ishigaki in the Ryukyu archipelago, and try to adapt to life there.
Go Takamine's first theatrical feature is a pioneering work of Okinawan cinema, filmed almost entirely in Okinawan dialect. Taking place shortly before the resumption of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa, Takamine’s film tacitly addresses the island prefecture's complicated history of occupation and feelings of dislocation through the story of a small community and its preparations for a wedding between a local girl and a Japanese teacher. On the periphery of these events is Reishu (Kaoru Kobayashi), who quits his job on a US military base and uses the extra time to catch snakes and play with ants – and get the bride-to-be pregnant. Takamine’s leisurely-paced film is full of uniquely Okinawan touches that mix in aspects of the island's folklore, accompanied by Haruomi Hosono’s spare and evocative score.
1979 film
