AFTER SPRING, THE TAMAKI FAMILY…

UMI NO KANATA

By Yin-Yu HUANG

MOOLIN PRODUCTION, CO., LTD - as BUYER REP

Documentary - Completed 2016

In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan to rediscover their family origins.

Festivals
& Awards

Taipei Film Festival 2016
nomination for best documentary of Taipei Film Awards
DMZ Docs 2016
Asian Competition
Hawaii International Film Festival 2016
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2016
SHINDO KANETO Awards 2017
Producer Award
Osaka Asian Film Festival, 2017
Special Screening
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Family, Historical
    • Countries
    • TAIWAN, JAPAN
    • Languages
    • TAIWANESE, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 131 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yin-Yu HUANG
    • Producer(s)
    • Yin-Yu HUANG (Moolin Films, Ltd.)
    • Synopsis
    • On a warm spring day in 2015, Grandma Tamayo and the Tamaki family, the largest immigrant family on Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa, goes a journey back home where they’d long left before World War II: Taiwan, on which they little by little steer out of the disorientation of their memory and complex identity.

      Time seems to moor still between coastlines of the deep ocean, and Grandma, as if a person from the past, is long lost in translation between different languages; lost in old memories diluted by time in her homeland. Yet the grandchildren, visiting Taiwan for the first time, are trying to steer out of the disorientation of their complex identity.

      On the long journey, the late spring of the Tamaki family’s own is finally reviving. This is not only a home movie spanning eighty years of vicissitudes in East Asian history, but a story portraying how a family maturing in the flow of time. These immigrants were once known as “stateless people” in the history of Okinawa. They have been swinging in different countries and regimes for sixty years, and are now cloaking themselves in the Japanese society. This is a tale of the forgotten people in the history of East Asia, and a family portrait in the contemporary society of Okinawa.