Taro Okamoto's Okinawa (2022)
岡本太郎の沖縄
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.
- Date of release
- 2022-01-01
- Runtime
- 2h 7m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Yoshihisa Katsurayama
Casting
- Arata Iura — Narrator
- Tarō Okamoto — Himself (archive footage)
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