Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Acting
Yu Aoi's transformation from wallflower to fire.
Direction
Lee finds poetry in factory smoke and swaying hips.
Production
That handmade Hawaiian village built from literal nothing.
Director
Sang-il Lee
Yu Aoi
Kimiko Tanikawa
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Madoka Hirayama
Etsushi Toyokawa
Yojiro Tanikawa
Shizuyo Yamasaki
Sayuri Kumano
Shoko Ikezu
Hatsuko Sasaki
Eri Tokunaga
Sanae Kimura
Hiroki Miyake
Mitsuo Igari
Susumu Terajima
Ishida
Masaru Shiga
Goro Kumano
Katsumi Takahashi
Seiji Kimura
Ittoku Kishibe
Norio Yoshimoto
Sumiko Fuji
Chiyo Tanikawa
Ami Ikenaga
Junko Soma
Natsuhi Ueno
Hiroko Miyata
Hiroshi Okochi
Union Leader for Miners
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real Joban Hawaiian Center in Fukushima, which still operates today—though the 2011 tsunami later forced its own evacuation.
The actresses trained with actual hula masters for months; their blistered feet in the snow-dance sequence? Not acting.
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