|
Title: | Film Screening: "Okinawa: The Afterburn"Finished |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date: | 18:00-21:00, Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 |
Place: | Collaboration Room 3 (4F), Building 18, University of Tokyo, Komaba [Map] |
|
Okinawa: The Afterburn
Year: 2016
Duration: 121 mins
Director: John Junkerman
Distributor: SIGLO
Discussant: M. Downing Roberts
* Best Documentary, Mainichi Film Awards
* No. 1, Kinema Jumpo Best Ten Documentaries
Description
On April 1, 1945, the US military landed on Okinawa, beginning a battle that lasted 12 weeks and claimed the lives of some 240,000 people. This film depicts the Battle through the eyes of Japanese and American soldiers who fought each other on the same battlefields, along with Okinawa civilians who were swept up in the fighting, with carefully selected footage from the US National Archives.
The film conveys the complex postwar fate of Okinawa, an island that has had to live side-by-side with an extensive array of US bases, and the related crimes, accidents, and pollution they have caused, while coexisting, on a personal level, with the occupying soldiers.
In Okinawa, the legacy of the war translates into a deeply rooted aversion to military force. This has been expressed in recent years by the island-wide rejection of the plan to build a new US base at Henoko, a source of controversy to this day. Okinawa: The Afterburn explores the roots of this resistance and Okinawa’s vision for the future. — SIGLO
We are pleased to invite you to join us for this special public screening of Okinawa: The Afterburn, to be followed by a discussion and Q & A.
Note: this is a new, shortened, bilingual version of the film, with English voice-over, and Japanese subtitles for English interviews.
Director
John Junkerman is an independent filmmaker living in Tokyo. He directed the Oscar-nominated Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima (1986). Uminchu: The Old Man and the East China Sea (1990) featured a marlin fisherman in Okinawa. He produced and directed a 4-part PBS series, The Mississippi: River of Song (1999). Power and Terror (2002) was the first film to address the American response to 9.11. Japan’s Peace Constitution (2005) won several best documentary prizes in Japan.
Language: English | Admission Free | No Registration Required | Organized by UTCP
