>> Catalog 2003

Okinawa—Nexus of Borders: Ryukyu Reflections

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An Intersection of Okinawa Images: Memory, Documentary and Dreams

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Part 1: Oriental Ryukyus: Showa Era Pre-war Perspectives on Okinawa

Okinawa (1936) Scenes from the Main Island of Okinawa and the Surrounding Islands (Unedited film shot by Kawamura Tadao) (1936-40) Ryukyu Arts (1939)

Ryukyu Scenes (1940) Southern Ryukyu Islands (circa 1940) People of the Sea: Okinawa Island Story (1942)

Part 2: The Battle of Okinawa: The Final Conflict between the U.S. and Japan

1) Records without Mercy Records of the Battle of Okinawa—from the Collection of the One-foot Film Movement (unedited version) (1945)

2) Records and Propaganda From German Newsreels, “The World in Film” (Welt im Film) (1945) From U.S. Military Official Publicity Films 3) The Production of Memory and Transmission of Narrative A Document of the Battle of Okinawa, Told One Foot at a Time (1995)

Part 3: The Battle of Okinawa in Relief / A Chronicle of Memories

1) Endless Questions Monument of Star Lilies (1953) Turbulent Showa History: Battle of Okinawa (1971) Star Lily War History: Questioning Education and the State Today (1979) A Gap in History: Thirty-five Years Since the Massacre of Okinawans (1980) An Overdue Decision (1988)

2) Voice and the Narration of Trauma: Memory and Living Words Today War Stories Told in Shima kutuba <Six Parts> (2003)

Part 4: Americanization and Japanization

1) Promotion in the American Era Raising Ryukyu These Ten Years, Part 1 (circa 1955) A Selection from Ryukyu News 2) Soul-graphy of the A-Sign Era Okinawan Boys (1983) Via Okinawa (1989) 3) Longing for the Mother Country / Across the 27th Parallel Okinawa: Road to the Homeland (1967) The Voice of Okinawa (1969) Cries Coral Reef (1965) Eighteen in Okinawa (1966) History of the Reversion Struggle (1977)

4) The Return of Okinawa: Behind the Scenes As Okinawa Goes, So Goes Japan: Secret Documents Shed Light on the Return of Okinawa (1997) Whistle-blowing: Thirty Years Since the Leak of Secrets from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—The Truth That Can at Last Be Told (2002) News Film “Those Times” (from Yomiuri International News) (1968-72) 5) In the Gulf between America and Japan Okinawa Islands (1969) Breaking through Hard Ground—Okinawa ’71— (1971) Forty Years of the Post-war Series: The Footsteps of Young Okinawans (1985)

Part 5: Caught between Different Worlds / When the 27th Parallel Disappears

1) Accumulated Voices, Entangled Gazes The Gentle Japanese (1971) 2) In the Place of Violence: The Labyrinth of Resistance Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel (1984)

3) The Penetration of the “Yamato Era” and the Construction of “Okinawa” 1975 Okinawa Summer (1975) When Calling Jahana Noboru (1976) Yamangunutida (The Gushiken Yoko Story) (1978) The Life of Okinawa Part 1: Indigenous Island Fauna (1978) Act 1, Scene 1 Okinawa Jinruikan (1978)

Part 6: Okinawan Diaspora / Leaving Okinawa

Leaving Port: Okinawa (1972) Okinauense: Okinawans Living in Latin America <In Bolivia> <In Peru> (1977)

Hia Sá Sá—Hai Yah! (1985) Memories of Betrayal (1988)

Part 7: Okinawa: Colonial Landscape

1) Colonial Elegies, Occupation Clichés Hill of No Return (1992) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

2) Sharing the Battle of Okinawa Let There Be Light (1946) Level 5 (1996)

Part 8: Earth Songs and Celestial Fantasies

1) A Banquet of Sound and Fantasy Tsukishiro Story (1959) The Yoshiya Chiru Story (1962) Ultraseven: The Young Messenger (1968) Song of Ajima (2002)

2) Wandering of the Deities and Spirits Nanamui / Part 1 Ceremonial Songs (2003) Nanamui / Part 2 Yuqui (2003)

Part 9: The World of Takamine Go: Blood (chi), Earth (chi), Wisdom (chi), Foolishness (chi), and “chi”

Sashingwa (Dear Photograph) (1973) Okinawan Dream Show (1974) Okinawan Chirudai <Special Edition> (1976-) Paradise View (1985)

Untamagiru (1989) Kadekaru Rinsho: Songs and Stories (1994) Tsuru-Henry (1998) Private Images of Ryukyu: J.M. (1996-)

Part 10: Diffused Reflections of Okinawa

1) The Reflection of Okinawan Images White Mural (1942) Sonatine (1993)

2) Okinawa Mixed and Split Pineapple Tours (1992) Fighting Rabbit (1992) Hitchhiker (1977) Swell Air—Short Film Collection by New Talent from Okinawa