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Bookmark this pageDear Summer Sister (1972)
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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From Time Out Film Guide
A film in which Oshima tackles Japan's 'Okinawa problem'. The Japanese today treat Okinawa as a holiday resort, and so this begins as a light, summery dream of sun, sand and teenage flirtation. But the underlying thread (a girl's search for her long-missing brother) conjures up darker spectres, and before long the entire idyll has been effectively undercut by guilt-ridden memories of the past - and especially the atrocities perpetrated on the island during the war.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Cast: Hosei Komatsu, Hiromi Kurita, Lily, Akiko Koyama, Shoji Ishibashi, Rokko Toura full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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