Taeko Yoshida

Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special: Goro Inogashira's Escape to the South (2023)

Immersion (2023)

Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world. ...

A Far Shore (2023)

Aoi has dropped out of high school and gives birth to a baby son with her husband Masaya. They live in Okinawa, the Southern island of Japan where they were both born. To make ends meet, she starts working as a night-club hostess. Masaya loses his job and ...

Borderless Island (2022)

Okinawan Blue (2019)

A tale of three families on a remote island. ...

Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu (2018)

In 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the author came across diplomatic documents relating to the reversion of Okinawa and was particularly impressed by the handwritten documents of Kazuo Chiba, the ...

Last Attack: Hikisakareta Shima no Kioku (2016)

Penguin Fufu (2012)

When Ayumi Mastuda (Eiko Koike) worked as a freelance writer she met Chinese cameraman Gyoukou (Kingone Wang), who worked at the same publishing company in Tokyo. They married 5 years ago. After his employer's went bankrupt, Gyoukou and Ayumi Matsuda moved ...

Ryujin Mabuyer The Movie: Nanatsu no Mabui (2012)

Cheers From Heaven (2011)

When bento shop owner Hikaru Oshiro learns that a group of high school students have no place to practice music, he takes it upon himself to build a studio beneath his store. The only stipulations he placed upon the students were that they be respectful t ...

The Catcher On The Shore (2010)

This drama depicts a boy's coming of age against the backdrop of Okinawa's food culture. Director Nakamura Ryugo was born in 1996. He made this film, his feature debut, when he was just fourteen years old. Okinawa has an old tradition of eating a goat for ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2009)

Yuriko (Yuki Shibamoto) is tired of her relationship with a married man. She leaves Tokyo and goes back to her hometown of Yugafu, which is located on small island in Okinawa. The married man though follows Yuriko to the small island. In addition, the marr ...

Twilight Phantom (2007)

Misaki visits her boyfriend Koichi in Okinawa, the southern island of Japan. To welcome the arrival of Misaki, Koichi's friend Jinsei holds a welcoming party at his house. At the party, Misaki learns from the wise granny about the legend behind the bag han ...

The Crying Wind (2004)

Seikichi, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by a white-sand beach and plots of pine and flow ...

Breathe In, Breathe Out (2004)

Breathe In, Breathe Out centers on six, later seven, individuals who have gotten jobs harvesting sugarcane on a small Okinawa island. Each worker has their own unique personality as well as their own issues as they learn to work together... ...

Hotel Hibiscus (2002)

Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her international family who live in Okinawa. They live in a run down old hotel called Hotel Hibiscus with only one room for rent. ...

Nabbie's Love (1999)

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying Nabbie's former lover, who has returned to Aguni after a long absence. ...

The Pig's Retribution (1999)

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones. ...

Pai Pati Roma (1994)

A woman follows an inner journey from island to island in search of "Pai Pati Roma" ...