Chikako Yamashiro

Chinbin Western, Kazoku no Hyosho

Chikako Yamashiro

A story goes around two families in Henoko, Nago city, in Okinawa, Japan where plans for construction of a new US military base are ongoing yet unsettled and in an unstable stage. Complicated feelings of two families in the area are depicted. A must-see is a duet of Opera and Ryuka (traditional Okinawan song) singing.

土の人

Chikako Yamashiro

On Jeju Island and in Okinawa. A film that incorporates allegories in order to depict the anguish of regions that bear U.S. military bases.

Your Voice Came Out Through My Throat

Chikako Yamashiro

Chikako Yamashiro

Yamashiro Chikako channels the stories of survivors of the Battle of Okinawa through lip-synch and superimposition. With her body as an archive, she stages the link between the donors and inheritors of trauma and, ultimately, the impossibility of transferring memory across generational lines.