¡Gekieiga Okinawa
¡Japanese Movie
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[Machine Translation] The days of endurance and sorrow are over. The soul of a people is shaken with a fierceness similar to the rumbling of the sea! Fifty years after its initial release... Set in postwar Okinawa before it was returned to Japan, this legendary feature film depicting the anguish, anger, and passionate struggle of the people and workers who were deprived of their homeland is finally available on DVD for the first time! ( Part 1: Not a single tsubo of land shall be given away ) Okinawa, 1945: Saburo Shimabukuro, who lost his land to the U.S., is rummaging for U.S. military supplies in the area around the base. Stealing Uchinanchu's goods is stealing, but stealing Americana's goods is war achievement! ' This was Saburo's philosophy of life. During the rapid expansion of the U.S. military base, Tomoko Tamanaha's grandmother was shot dead by a fighter plane's machine gun. Local farmers formed a protest line against the U.S. military, which did not provide any compensation. Soon after, the farmers' struggle spread to the entire Okinawa region. (Ten years later, the U.S. entered the Vietnam War and launched B-52 bombers from bases in Okinawa. As the war intensified, the working conditions for the base workers became even harsher. Their anger develops into a strike struggle, but the U.S. tries every possible means to crush the strike. As arrests and dismissals continue, Tomoko's younger brother Wataru is hit by an American military truck and dies instantly. Wataru's teacher denounces the "lies of American democracy" in a military court, but the verdict is... Scaled-down re-edited pamphlet enclosed.
Original Release Year: 1969
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