Taro Okamoto's Okinawa(2022)

Name: Taro Okamoto's Okinawa
Director: Yoshihisa Katsurayama
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-01-01
Duration: 127 min
Cast: Arata Iura, Tarō Okamoto

Arata Iura Tarō Okamoto

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.