Four rooms, three cultures, one Okinawan fever dream—where military base dreams go to die spectacularly.
Koza, Okinawa City, which prospered as a gateway town for the U.S. military. Four omnibus dramas unfold at the intersection of Japanese, American, and Okinawan cultures. Dream chasers, losers, wounded, and hangers-on... The city of Koza and its people weave their own stories.
Cinematography
Koza's neon-soaked streets as character, not backdrop.
Writing
Four interconnected scripts that actually talk to each other.
Acting
Local faces carrying decades of unspoken history.
Director
Tsukasa Kishimoto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koza (now Okinawa City) was literally built around U.S. bases; this film captures its unique 'border town' psychology that mainland Japanese cinema rarely touches.
Director Kishimoto cast actual Koza residents in background roles, creating documentary texture beneath the fiction.
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