Child of the Sun (1980)
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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