Taro Okamoto's Okinawa

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 127 min
  • Premiere: 2022. January 1.

Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), one of Japan's most famous artists, traveled to Okinawa in 1959 and 1966. The reason for these trips was his journey to rediscover Japan, in search of his identity as a Japanese person. More than 60 years ago, Okamoto captured the "poignant tenderness of life" of the people, and concluded: "It is in Okinawa that we can find the lost. In Okinawa, I rediscovered myself for the first time." This documentary goes on a journey through Okinawa led by Okamoto himself, 50 years after Okinawa's reversion to Japan.

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Arata Iura

Narrator

Tarō Okamoto

Himself (archive footage)

Crew

Directing

Editing

Production