Child of the Sun (1980)

0.0/10 • 142 min •

Overview

A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.

Cast

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Mayumi Ozora

Masane Tsukayama

Jun Hamamura

Sadao China

Taiji Tonoyama

Hideji Ōtaki

Detective A

Mieko Nishio

Shinobu Otake

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