Untamagiru

Untamagiru
Original film poster
Japanese name
Kana	ウンタマギルー
Directed by	Gō Takamine
Written by	Gō Takamine
Produced by	Natsuki Hariu
Starring	Kaoru Kobayashi Jun Togawa John Sayles
Cinematography	Masaki Tamura
Edited by	Hiroshi Yoshida
Music by	Kōji Ueno
Production company	Parco
Release date	October 7, 1989 (1989-10-07) (Japan)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Okinawan

Untamagiru (Okinawan: ウンタマギルー, Untamagiruu) is a 1989 Okinawan film directed by Gō Takamine. It is a magical realist story of the legendary Okinawan hero Untamagiru participating in efforts to form an independent Okinawa before the island was returned to Japan in 1972. Many of the characters speak in the Okinawan language and thus mainland Japanese spectators needed subtitles to understand it.

Cast

• Chikako Aoyama
• Kaoru Kobayashi
• John Sayles
• Jun Togawa

Awards and nominations

14th Hochi Film Award^[1]

• Won: Best Film

References

1. 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2010-01-06.

External links

• Untamagiru at IMDb