A few film makers used Okinawa as a setting
for their stories. Despite its cultural significance and relative youth,
the film industry is quite bad about preserving its historical record.
Institutions
Film Library, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles
The Film Collection and Script Collection has a copy and script of
the Teahouse of the August Moon, the most successful motion picture
about Okinawa. The library also houses the MGM studio archives, which made
the film.
Film and Television Archive Research
and Study Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Houses the Hearst Newsreel Collection, which has a number of films
recording combat scenes from Okinawa. It also has a video tape of a made
for television version of Teahouse of the August Moon.
Films
Return to Okinawa: The American Years, 1945-1972
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