Movies and TV shows set in okinawa japan

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in okinawa japan ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, humorous and exciting films and TV shows about / with blood, death, beach, violence, murder, photograph, fight, friendship, hotel and friend plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in Japan, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as okinawa japan: Glasses (2007), Hacksaw Ridge (2016), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), The Battle of Okinawa (1971), Chimudondon (2022), The Men's Club (1986), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), My Korean Teacher (2016), The Imperial Japanese Empire (1982), Karate Girl (2011).

List of movies set in okinawa japan

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Glasses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Harried and overworked, Taeko leaves the city for a much-needed island vacation. Stepping off a propeller plane onto golden sands, she drags her giant suitcase across the beach to Hamada Inn. Owner Yuji is impressed; it's the first time in ...
Style: humorous, psychological, disturbing, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: beach, travel, vacation, food, identity crisis, female protagonist, crisis, relationship problems, island, social problems, stress, tropical island ...
Place: okinawa japan, okinawa
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Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Australia, USA, UK, China
Duration: 139 min.
Story: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, harsh, motivational ...
Audience: manly
Plot: world war two, war, soldier, conscientious objector, combat, religion, survival, american soldier, military, us military, bible, u.s. army ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, 2010s, 20th century, year 1945 ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan, japan, tennessee, usa
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, epic, factual ...
Plot: war, military, world war two, propaganda, wartime, battles, guilt, survival, world war, fame, american history, political intrigue ...
Time: year 2006, 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, pacific ocean, america, usa ...
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The Battle of Okinawa (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops ...
Plot: world war two, japanese army, japanese military, military, u.s. navy, japanese soldier, japanese navy, pacific war, young soldier, american soldier, u.s. army, brutality ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: okinawa japan, japan, usa, tokyo
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Chimudondon (2022)
Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Higa Nobuko was born and raised with her four siblings in a farmhouse in the "Yanbaru region" in the northern part of the main island of Okinawa. She aims to become a chef drawing inspiration from Okinawan cuisine. The four siblings follow ...
Style: asadora, sentimental, exciting, entertaining, sincere ...
Plot: japanese girl, cookery, young woman, japanese woman, young girl, family relations, cooking and food, culinary arts, food, cooking, reconstruction, japanese food
Place: okinawa, tokyo, okinawa japan
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The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who ...
Style: non-linear, bloody, tense, cult classic, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, vengeance, martial arts, mentor, one man army, female protagonist, heroine, yakuza, hitman, sword, dark hero, violence ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, persia, austin texas, texas ...
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My Korean Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young-Ung was dumped by his girlfriend. While he is in Okinawa, Japan on a business trip, the company he works for goes bankrupt. Sakura is a single mother and works for a travel agency. She needs to learn Korean for her job. At a Korean language ...
Style: light, sweet, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: feminine beauty, wench, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single mother, golddigger, job interview, youth, love, rivalry, couples, love affair, relationships ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
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The Imperial Japanese Empire (1982)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Plot: world war two, imperial japan, barber, military, father son relationship, japanese occupation, beach, japanese army, husband wife relationship, christian, chance meeting
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, okinawa japan, japan, usa
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Karate Girl (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, stylized, suspense
Plot: karate, female martial artist, pretty girl, teenage girl, pretty woman, martial arts, kidnapping, japanese man, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, sibling relationship, fight ...
Place: japan, okinawa japan, okinawa
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Check It Out, Yo! (2006)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessing the crowd reaction, the boys decide to start a rap group of their own to impress chicks—while ...
Plot: hip hop, teenager in love, high school student, rap, concert, drowning, boy girl relationship, island, infatuation, aquarium
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
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The Shell Collector (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but has a healing and hallucinogenic effect on some people. Can people resist the creature’s ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: remote island, blind man, fighting illness, illness, lifestyle, problem, female nudity, sea, beach, shell
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
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Rage (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Plot: gay, murderer, murder suspect, murder, suspicion, father daughter relationship, island, trust, mistaken identity, single mother, gay relationship, lgbt ...
Place: japan, okinawa, tokyo, okinawa japan
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Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Style: crime drama, grindhouse
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, exploitation, city, japanese man, mafia, mobster, gangster, gang war, hitman, murder, blood ...
Place: okinawa, okinawa japan
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Nabbie's Love (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film tells the story of a small community on a small island in Okinawa, Japan. Especially it focusses on the story of a grandma named Nabbie, but although it's her story told in the film's centre there are some young people, the ...
Plot: rural setting, island life, exile, first love, senior citizen, family curse, folk music
Place: okinawa japan
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Tears for You (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Tears for You is a love story about two step-siblings, Yota (Satoshi Tsumabuki) and Kaoru (Masami Nagasawa). Long ago, Yota's mother (Kyoko Koizumi) married Kaoru's jazz-playing father (Tatsuya Nakamura), effectively merging the two ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: little sister, con men, step siblings, male female relationship, grownups, life is a bitch, adolescence vs adulthood, care, relationships, half brother, half sister, brother ...
Place: okinawa japan
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspense thriller, cult classic, poliziottesco ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, manipulation, macabre, killer, obsession, blackmail, millionaire, hotel, paranoia, sexy girls, whodunit ...
Time: 70s
Place: greece, europe, london, england, tokyo ...
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Sonatine (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans ...
Style: bloody, neo noir, art house, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, beach, death, gang, medieval, gunfight, dark humor, asian gangster, criminal, revenge ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia, okinawa japan, okinawa ...
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Silent Venom (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, submarine, underwater, dangerous animal, mutant, survival, military, race against time, save the day, isolation, danger, daring rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, korea, okinawa japan
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Samurai Champloo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets ...
Style: anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: samurai, pride and honor, martial arts, sword fight, friendship, master warrior, danger, katana, breakdance, on the road, road trip, journey ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, okinawa japan
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All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, depressing, teen, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, social misfits, teenage life, friendship, adolescence, youth, loneliness, school ...
Time: year 2000, year 1999, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, okinawa, asia, okinawa japan ...
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Please Twins! (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Please Twins!, is an anime television series, scripted by Yousuke Kuroda and produced by Bandai Visual, which was later adapted into a light novel and one-volume manga series. It centers on a family of three teenagers in high school all living ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, realistic, ecchi
Audience: date night
Plot: twins, high school life, social differences, family relations, fall in love, youth, orphan, siblings relations, love and romance, forbidden love, society, loneliness ...
Place: okinawa japan
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Please Teacher! (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: In this sci-fi romantic comedy, An alien is ordered to investigate earth, making sure that it's teachers are doing well, so she becomes a teacher herself. When she shows up, however, she is seen by one of the students, and must keep him quiet. ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, alien, secret marriage, love affair, teachers and students, culture clash, benign alien, youth, friendship, husband wife relationship, odd couple, slice of life ...
Time: 2030s
Place: okinawa japan
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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
Plot: drinking, singer, beer, war crime, brother sister relationship, sea, beach, prostitute, rape, extramarital affair, judge, singing ...
Place: okinawa japan
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even ...
Style: sad, emotional, heartbreaking, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: world war two, child protagonist, coming of age, childhood, pow, captivity, japanese army, peasant, survival, child, young heroes, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1945
Place: china, japan, asia, indochina, hong kong ...
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The Cure (1997)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style: psychological, scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, amnesia, hypnosis, monkey, hallucination, interrogation, murder mystery, mind control, stranger, psychosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, okinawa japan
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Blues Harp (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, blues, samurai, gay asian, gangster, danger, friendship, drug dealing, nightclub, gay interest, gay subtext, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, okinawa japan
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Boiling Point (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Style: bloody, art house, neo noir, crime drama, hood ...
Plot: yakuza, revenge, gangster, gang, mafia, sex crime, organized crime, ghetto, asian, car crash, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, okinawa, east asia, asia, okinawa japan ...
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Non Non Biyori: The Movie - Vacation (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: The movie for Non Non Biyori series. Summer vacation is drawing to an end. When Suguru wins a free trip to Okinawa, all of the five students of Asahigaoka branch school are excited to end their vacation with a bang. Along with Hikage, Konomi, and ...
Style: anime, visually appealing, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: countryside, summer vacation, friendship, sea voyage, teenage girl, vacation, summer, sea, village, friendship between girls, friend, teenage protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: okinawa japan, japan, okinawa
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Lucky (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, sad, captivating ...
Plot: loneliness, philosophy, elderly, aging, old age, father son relationship, small town, ex marine, doctor, friendship, guilt, secret ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 60s, year 1968 ...
Place: europe, kentucky, the philippines, okinawa japan
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