Uruma City
World Uchinanchu Film Festival
1st Nanyang Edition “Mango and Brown Sugar” Screening & Guest Talk
- Movies
- Real-life event
Schedule
2025.07.13（日）
Open：13:00 Start：13:30 Close：16:30
Venue
Uruma City Lifelong Learning and Culture Promotion Center Yurateku 〒904-2226 187 Nakamine, Uruma City, Okinawa
Charge
Participation fee is free
Children preschool age or younger are not allowed to enter.
Contents
Cast: Emma Kujira (film director)/Toshio Higa (Nanyang Islands Returnees Association Succession Association)
Now, 80 years after the war, this is a special event to learn about the connection between Okinawan immigrants and the war through movies. Through films set in the three regions of North America, South America, and Asia, we learn how people who immigrated from Okinawa experienced during the war, and about post-war reconstruction support and the connection with Okinawa.
The movie “Mango and Brown Sugar”
A documentary film looking at the present day of people who have experienced war. Saipan, Tinian... After World War I, many Japanese people crossed over to the Nanyang Archipelago and formed a sugar kingdom with the local Chamorro people. Listen to the voices of returnees who talk about their nostalgic hometown and the tragedy of Tamagurashi.
●World Uchinanchu Film Festival
1st Nanyang edition
7/13 (Sun) 13:30 to 16:30
“Mango and brown sugar”
Uruma City Lifelong Learning and Culture Promotion Center Yurateku
2nd South America
9/27 (Sat) 14:00-16:00
“War and Migration/ From Tinian to Brazil”
Okinawa Prefectural Map Museum Exchange Room
3rd North American Edition
11/15 (Sat) 14:00-16:00
“Japanese Canadian People Stories”
Haebaru Municipal Haebaru Culture Center
Capacity：30 people
Advance applications are required