Untamagiru

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Untamagiru

Japanese	ウンタマギルー
Directed by	Gō Takamine
Starring	Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Togawa, John Sayles
Cinematography	Masaki Tamura
Release dates	1989 (1989)
Country	Japan
Language	Okinawan

Untamagiru (ウンタマギルー) is a 1989 Japanese film directed by Gō Takamine. It is 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.

Awards and nominations

14th Hochi Film Award^[1]

Won: Best Film

References

↑ "報知映画賞ヒストリー" (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-06.

Hochi Film Award for Best Film

The Inugamis (1976)
The Yellow Handkerchief (1977)
Third Base (1978)
Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1979)
Kagemusha (1980)
Enrai (1981)
Fall Guy (1982)
The Family Game (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
And Then (1985)
Comic Magazine (1986)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Tomorrow (1988)
Untamagiru (1989)
Sakura no Sono (1990)
My Sons (1991)
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992)
All Under the Moon (1993)
A Dedicated Life (1994)
A Last Note (1995)
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)
Hana-bi (1998)
Spellbound (1999)
Face (2000)
Go (2001)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Doing Time (2003)
Nobody Knows (2004)
Always Sanchōme no Yūhi (2005)
Hula Girls (2006)
I Just Didn't Do It (2007)
Departures (2008)
Shizumanu Taiyo (2009)
Villain (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
Key of Life (2012)
The Great Passage (2013)

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