FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs stationed in Okinawa. “There was love,” as the tagline reads; her photography book, “Red Flower – The Women of Okinawa” captured the diaristic intimacy of friendships, love affairs, and wild nights shared amongst her social circle of that time. Looking back on those photographs and Okinawa in the wake of its reversion to Japan in 1972 after the U.S. rule, Mao takes us on the journey of her ardent-photographer life through history, politics, racism, love, empowerment, and ​​raison d’être.

Credits
Writer: Hiroshi Sunairi
Producer: Hiroshi Sunairi, Ider Batbayar
Executive Producer: Hiroshi Sunairi
Director of Photography: Hiroshi Sunairi
Editor: Hiroshi Sunairi
Production Designer: Hiroshi Sunairi
Composer: Adam Scott, Syo Yoshihama, Tetsuya Yoneda, Kanta Kitazaki
Sound Designer: Adam Scott
Music: Adam Scott, Syo Yoshihama, Tetsuya Yoneda, Kanta Kitazaki