Taro Okamoto's Okinawa
MovieTitle | 岡本太郎の沖縄 |
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Release date | Jan 1, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Yoshihisa Katsurayama |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Simple Monk |
Run time | 127 min. |
Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), one of Japan's most famous artists, traveled to Okinawa in 1959 and 1966. The reason for these trips was his journey to rediscover Japan, in search of his identity as a Japanese person. More than 60 years ago, Okamoto captured the "poignant tenderness of life" of the people, and concluded: "It is in Okinawa that we can find the lost. In Okinawa, I rediscovered myself for the first time." This documentary goes on a journey through Okinawa led by Okamoto himself, 50 years after Okinawa's reversion to Japan.