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Bookmark this pageTsuru-Henry (1998)
Director: Go Takamine
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From Time Out Film Guide
Tsuru (folk-blues singer Oshiro) is a roving broadcaster and collector of singing-and-dancing DNA samples, kept in her lunchbox. One day she finds an abandoned script (its penniless author has fled to Taiwan in search of a woman - Chen, from A Confucian Confusion and The River) and so she moves into the writer's house and sets about staging it as a play. But her son Henry (high-school karate champ Miyagi) over-identifies with his role as a US official, goes crazy and is taken as a prophet... Takamine is still the poet laureate of everything bizarre and musical in Okinawa and this ramshackle mix of separatist politics and conceptual sexuality answers every question about the islands - including the ones nobody's thought of yet.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Go Takamine
Producer: Shinko Nakamura, Zhang Huakun, Ni Zhonghua
Cast: Misako Oshiro, Katsuma Miyagi, Miezo Toma, Chen Xiangqi, Susumu Taira full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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