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FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE
OKINAWA PHILADELPHIA

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Oct. 5Oct. 11, 2024

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“FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE” 
(2023/Japan・USA/Japanese・English/101min)

■Admission
-Adults ¥1,800
-Over 60 ¥1,200
-College Students ¥1,500
-High School Students ¥1,500
-Holders of disability identification cards together with two caregiver ¥1,200
-Under Junior High School Students ¥1,200

a film by hiroshi sunairi
produced by hiroshi sunairi + Ider Batbayar
early elephant film + 3E Ider © 2023
featuring Mao Ishikawa
Supported by Syo Yoshihama/Isao Nakazato/Hiroki Ohashi/Akinori Ono/Dai
Ryukyu Shashin Emaki Executive committee members

PRODUCTION
Audio Mix – Adam Scott
Sound – Syo Yoshihama
Subtitle – Naho Sakemi
Camera Sound editing – Hiroshi Sunairi
MUSIC – Adam Scott, Syo Yoshihama, Tetsuya Yoneda, Kanta Kitazaki, Shuichi Oshiro
Photography (All Photographs by Mao Ishikawa © MaoIshikawa)
Hot Days in Camp Hansen!! MAO ISHIKAWA, HIGA TOYOMITSU, Aaman Shuppan 1982
Hot Days in Okinawa MAO ISHIKAWA, FOIL 2013
Red Flower The Women of Okinawa MAO ISHIKAWA, Session Press 2017

■Story
An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa spent her early 20s working as a barmaid in establishments catered specifically to African American GIs stationed in Okinawa. “There was love,” as the tagline reads; her photography book, “Red Flower – The Women of Okinawa” captured the diaristic intimacy of friendships, love affairs, and wild nights shared amongst her social circle of that time. Looking back on those photographs and Okinawa in the wake of its reversion to Japan in 1972 after the U.S. rule, Mao takes us on the journey of her ardent-photographer life through history, politics, racism, love, empowerment, and raison d’être.


early elephant film + 3E Ider © 2023


“OKINAWA PHILADELPHIA”
(2022/Japan・USA/Japanese・English/56min)

■Admission
-Adults ¥1,000
-Over 60 ¥1,000
-College Students ¥1,000
-High School Students ¥1,000
-Holders of disability identification cards together with two caregiver ¥1,000
-Under Junior High School Students ¥1,000

produced by hiroshi sunairi + Ider Batbayar
a film by hiroshi sunairi
early elephant film + 3E Ider © 2023

QUAN CARR
MICHELLE CARR
MAO ISHIKAWA
RITA PRYOR
MYRON CARR
BYRON CARR

sound music – adam scott
camera editing – hiroshi sunairi
subtitle – ider batbayar

photography (All Photographs by Mao Ishikawa © MaoIshikawa)
LIFE IN PHILLY by MAO ISHIKAWA (Gallery OUT of PLACE 2010)
Hot Days in Camp Hansen!! by MAO ISHIKAWA, HIGA TOYOMITSU (Aaman Shuppan 1982)

■Story
An Okinawan photographer, Mao Ishikawa was 33 years old when she crossed the ocean to Philadelphia in order to photograph the life of her friend, Myron Carr, a former US marine whom she met during his service in Okinawa in the 1970s. The subsequent photo book, “Life in Philly”, is filled with raw and vivid images, capturing the atmosphere and the culture of the predominantly African American neighborhood of downtown Philadelphia in the late 80s. This film looks back on those days, bringing Myron to remembrance as Mao and his surviving family try to find the missing pieces.


early elephant film + 3E Ider © 2023

*The schedule is subject to change. Any further changes will be announced.