Okinawa-related movies ranked in top 10 of Kinema Junpo’s movie ranking

Okinawa-related movies ranked in top 10 of Kinema Junpo’s movie ranking

A scene from the “Target Island Kaji kataka”


January 11, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

The 91st Kinema Jumpo top ten ranking for movies released in 2017 was announced January 10. “Target Island Kaji kataka,” the movie that deals with issues of military bases and the deployment of self defence forces on neighboring islands such as Miyako and Ishigaki, was ranked second in the cultural movie category. The movie was directed by Chie Mikami.

A film titled “Kamejiro, the man the U.S. military was most afraid of” ranked seventh in the same category. The movie is about politician Kamejiro Senaga and was directed by Tadahiko Sako.

A scene from the “Kamejiro, the man the U.S. military was most afraid of”


The top spot in the cultural movie category was awarded to “Jinsei fruits” by Kenshi Fushihara.

“Yozora wa itsudemo saiko mitsudo no aoiro da,” translated as “The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue” by Yuya Ishii and “I, Daniel Blake” by Ken Loach received first place in the Japanese film category and the foreign film categoy respectively.

(English translation by T&CT and Sayaka Sakuma)

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