[2005]

Marines Go Home!—Henoko, Maehyang-ri, Yausubetsu

Director: FUJIMOTO Yukihisa

2005 Japanese, Korean Subtitled in - Color Video 135 min

Photography: FUJIMOTO Yukihisa, KODERA Takuya,
MIYAZAKI Toshiharu, NISHIMARU Eiji
Sound: KUBOTA Yukio
Narrator, Producer: KAGEYAMA Asako
Production Company: Morino Eigasha 		  Contact Name: Hokkaido Asia Africa Latin America Solidarity
Phone: 81-11-747-0977
Fax: 81-11-717-0997
E-mail: AALA-HOKKAIDO@ma6.seikyou.ne.jp
URL: www.hayaokidori.squares.net/marines_go_home/

[Festivals and prizes] Yamagata IDFF 2005

[Synopsis] Both Japan and Korea have U.S. military bases on their soil. Henoko, Okinawa continues a desperate campaign to block the construction of a U.S. Marine Corps heliport. A bombing practice site for the U.S. Air Force exists in Maehyang-ri, Korea. Yausubetsu, Hokkaido has the largest Self-Defense Forces maneuvers training ground in Japan. The film shows us a facet of Japan’s militarization as it follows people in each region engaging in lifelong anti-military protest activity.


FUJIMOTO Yukihisa

Born 1954 in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Fujimoto Yukihisa graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. After working as an assistant director for Tsuchimoto Noriaki, he made his directorial debut with Japanese Invasion of the Malay Peninsula (1992). Mining the Dark won the Second Prize at the 2002 Retina International Film and Video Festival.

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