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Dear Summer Sister
JAPAN · 1972

Dear Summer Sister

Nagisa Oshima
family reunion post-war trauma Okinawan history coming of age cultural discovery
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Synopsis

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.

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