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Notes from Okinawa and our preview screening at Ryukyu University
Our first night in Okinawa, our producer Koide picks us up with his schoolmate Higa. Higa’s ancestors were pirates who fled the mainland centuries ago and settled in Okinawa.Koide takes us to the Sakurazaka theatre, a new three-screen art house in downtown Naha that Koide thinks would be a good premiere venue for the [...]
Acclaimed Japanese Filmmaker Joins The First Breath of Tengan Rei as Producer
Masayuki Koide, producer of the Japan/Taiwan co-production Addicts, now in theatres, has signed on as a producer for The First Breath of Tengan Rei. Koide is focusing on Japanese and Asian distribution for Tengan Rei. Koide worked as a TV director and as a producer for animation companies Sunrise and Ginax. He directed the films Kanpai [...]
It happened again.
It happened again.
U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Tyrone Hadnott was arrested last week on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa, where Hadnott is stationed. The attack is eerily similar to the 1995 assault by three U.S. servicemen on an Okinawan girl that inspired our film The First Breath of Tengan Rei. The [...]
