October 22, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
GENSAN PUNCH, the Japan-Philippines co-production film starring Okinawan actor Shogen, directed by Filippino director Brillante Mendoza, won the Kim Jiseok Award in South Korea’s 26th Busan International Film Festival (Oct 6-15).
The award honors the late Kim Jiseok, a founding member of the Busan Film Festival, and is given to the most attractive film reflecting the contemporary status of Asian cinema.
GENSAN...
March 1, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
A Japanese-Filipino joint production film, The Amputee Boxer (title TBD), is currently being filmed in Okinawa. The movie is a human drama based on the true-life story of Naozumi Tsuchiyama, 37. Tsuchiyama, who hails from Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, built his boxing...
February 22, 2020 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa City, Okinawa—ISSA, a member of the popular J-pop group DA PUMP, participated in Koza Night, a bar-hopping event organized by the city. ISSA was appointed night mayor (nightlife official) for Okinawa City in 2018 and while the singer is currently on...
November 8, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Cocco, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of her debut in 2017, released her 10th studio album, StarShank, in October (3,000 yen before tax, Victor Entertainment).
Released three years after the release of her previous album, Adan Ballet, Cocco once again...
October 10, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawan magician MASA MAGIC took first place in the Strolling Magic Showdown, an event in which magicians from around the globe compete in Los Angeles. This is the second win for MASA MAGIC, who won the competition for the first time in June of last year.
The...
July 28, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki took the stage during the final day of Fuji Rock, Japan’s largest outdoor music festival, held at the Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata prefecture on July 28. The session took place at the festival’s Atomic Cafe stage, where the topic centered...
June 29, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 28, 37-year-old model and actress from Naha, Kurara Chibana’s first anthology “At the Beginning, There was Love” was released at bookstores.
The anthology will hit Okinawa’s shelves at the beginning of July.
Besides writing about her...
June 27, 2019 Ryukyu Shimpo
On June 26 at the Okinawa City Civic Center, the late Hisashi Inoue’s theater troop performed his original play “Ki no Ue no Guntai (Army on the Tree)”, depicting the Battle of Okinawa. The Ryukyu Shimpo and the Okinawa City Cultural Development Consortium...
July 13, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
An exhibit on the tyrannosaurus sponsored by Ryukyu Shimpo and Okinawa Churashima Foundation opened with over 80 rare fossil remains and a 12-meter-tall full skeleton. The exhibit is named, “Tyrannosaurus Exhibit: The mystery of evolution,” and opens at the Okinawa...
January 5, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
By Chikako Maemori
A skilled performer set the stage for a variety of performances; the 40-year-old performer from Ishigaki City, Kazuya Shimoji, performs three roles on his own at the Kinoshita Circus held at Toyosaki Town special venue in Tomigusuku City....
December 16, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
The opening of the Kinoshita circus was held as part of the launch event for the Ryukyu Shimpo main building on December 15 at the Toyosaki Special Venue in Tomigusuku city.
It has been five years since the circus was last held...
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