Naha City

“The Road to the Battle of Okinawa Traced in the Diary of Sudden Changes and Silence”

2025/Japan/104 minutes

  • Movies
  • documentary
  • Real-life event

Schedule

2025.12.18(木)

Start:12:20 Close:14:11

Event period:2025/12/15(月) 〜 2025/12/26(金)

Closing date undecided

Venue

Sakurazaka Movie Theater 〒900-0013 3-6-10 Makishi, Naha City

Charge

General-admission 1800 yen

60 years old and over 1200 yen

1400 yen for High school and university students

1000 yen for Elementary and junior high school students

Infants (3 years and over) 800 yen

Various other discounts are available

Contents

Director: Hara Yoshikazu
Cast: Ryohei Tachibanai/Satsuki Miyagi/Shunzo Nishio
Official website https://www.yoshikazuhara.com/

12/15 (Mon) to 19 (Fri) 12:20 to 14:11
12/20 (Sat) 10:20 to 12:11
12/21 (Sun) 19:50 to 21:41
12/22 (Mon) 21:20 ~ 23:11
12/23 (Tue) -26 (Fri) 10:20 to 12:11
12/26 (Friday) Screening ends

“Sudden change” is “silence,” which shows how Japanese soldiers were damaged in their humanity on the battlefield and made into “human weapons” regardless of whether they wanted it or not, represents the days after the war, when former Japanese soldiers closed their mouths, and lived with fragments of “sudden change” hidden in their hearts. In an age where former Japanese soldiers themselves were alive and direct interviews were possible, war diaries may not have received much attention. It was such a grueling experience, and most of them didn't talk much about the war because they had a mouth-shouting order. Diaries are social assets that reveal an unknown side of the former Japanese soldiers. This work depicts a part of the battlefield experienced as a soldier by a very normal Japanese person who was everywhere. Life and death are on paper, an abnormal battlefield where beheading etc. were also carried out... what really happened on battlefields in Asia, starting with China? A documentary film that takes on the challenge of getting closer to the truth of history by carefully deciphering war diaries.
*There are also expressions of discrimination in this work, but in order to convey the actual situation at that time, they are not paraphrased; they are expressed as they are.

Contact

Sakurazaka Movie Theater

TEL:098-860-9555

MAIL:info@sakura-zaka.com