37 Films & TV Shows Set In Okinawa Prefecture
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Hacksaw Ridge
Virginia South Carolina Okinawa Prefecture The 1940sOne of the greatest heroes in American history never fired a bullet. — WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Okinawa Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 1940s1196 men aboard, 5 days in water, 317 survived — The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
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Rage
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture The 2010sA man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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Chasuke's Journey
Okinawa PrefectureThings are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
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Zinnia Flower
Okinawa PrefectureOn the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife and Ming her fiancé. In Buddhism, one is given 100 days to mourn for the dead. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles while Ming calmly creeps down a determined path. But the pain and sorrow linger on. With the 100th day approaching, they wonder if they'll ever be able to say goodbye.
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Cheers From Heaven
Okinawa PrefectureWhen bento shop owner Hikaru Oshiro learns that a group of high school students have no place to practice music, he takes it upon himself to build a studio beneath his store. The only stipulations he placed upon the students were that they be respectful to others, do well in school, and be empathetic towards others. Based on the true story of Hikaru Naskasone who supported students up until his death from cancer in November, 2009.
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Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Singing Buttocks Bomb
Okinawa PrefectureWhen an alien bomb powerful enough to destroy the entire planet sticks to the buttocks of Shin-chan's pet dog Shiro, a race to save the world begins.
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South Bound
Okinawa PrefectureUehara Jiro, in the sixth year at elementary school, is from a family of five; his parents who are both ex-extremists, his elder sister and a younger sister. Children look coldly at their father, Ichiro (Toyokawa Etsushi), who does not work but is quick at lashing out for anything illogical. One day, Jiro snaps at a junior high school student in the neighborhood who ridiculed his parents and causes a violent incident. Being tired of all the fuss made by the school and the response from the child welfare, the Uehara family moves to the island of Iriomotejima, father's hometown. However, the island is in the midst of a row over a development plan to build resort facilities, and the family is sucked into the mayhem. Ichiro and his wife Sakura are arrested, but they break loose. They are forced to live a life as fugitives, and are unable to live with their children. The children, however, understand that their parents do not want to succumb to the establishment and support them.
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Letters from Iwo Jima
Okinawa Prefecture The 2000s The 1940sThe battle of Iwo Jima seen through the eyes of the Japanese soldiers. — The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Tears for You
Okinawa PrefectureTears for You is a love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-playing father, effectively merging the two families. Unfortunately, Kaoru's father skipped town, and Yota's mother passed away, but not before imparting a dying wish to her young son to take care of Kaoru. In the meantime, the two young children were raised by Yota's grandmother on a small island off the coast of Okinawa. When Yota came of age, he took on a role not just as a brother but as a surrogate father of sorts for Kaoru, al
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Godzilla: Final Wars
New York Arizona British Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇬 Egypt Shanghai Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture New South Wales 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇦🇶 Antarctica Pacific OceanFarewell, Godzilla. — Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture 🇲🇽 Mexico Texas California The 2000sA roaring rampage of revenge. — An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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The City of Lost Souls
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture 🇧🇷 BrazilBrazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
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Okinawa Rendez-vous
Okinawa PrefectureJimmy Tong (Leslie Cheung) is an expert blackmailer and thief who specialises in white-collar crimes. With his side-kick (Vincent Kok), Jimmy steals a personal diary belonging to a Yakuza leader Ken Sato (Masaya Kato) intending to use its details as a platform for blackmailing and to extort money. Sato agreed to the uneasy deal and made preparations to pay Jimmy his exorbitant demands only for Sato's girlfriend Jenny (Faye Wong) to betray him and make off with the money to Okinawa.
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Free and Easy 11
Okinawa PrefectureHama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
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Nabbie's Love
Okinawa PrefectureThe 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.
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Beat
Okinawa Prefecture The 1960sIt's all about love! It's all about us! — In 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.
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Tomorrow Never Dies
England 🇩🇪 Germany Okinawa Prefecture 🇷🇺 Russia 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇳 China The 1990sYesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man. — A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
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Rebirth of Mothra II
Okinawa Prefecture The 1990sA transforming miracle! — Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
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Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage
🇹🇼 Taiwan Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture 🇵🇭 PhilippinesKiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master's karate dojo. He gets the assignment to guard a young woman in Taipei...
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Sonatine
Okinawa PrefectureA ferocious man sleeps here — Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.
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Bodyguard Kiba
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture The 1980s The 1990sNaoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
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Boiling Point
Okinawa PrefectureMasaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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Untama giru
Okinawa Prefecture The 1970sA magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972.
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