JAPANEMA

  

 

A true story of human love is brought back to life  

  

  

  

after 67 years 

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"Fly, Dakota Fly!"

(109mins, 2013)

Director: Seiji Aburatani

In Japanese with English subtitles

Wednesday, August 27 @ 7:00PM

©"FLY, DAKOTA, FLY!" partners

About the Movie: 

    January 1946, a plane makes a crash landing on the beach in a small village on Sado island, Niigata prefecture. It is a British airforce Dakota plane, carrying VIPs. They have no choice but to stay put unless they can somehow dig Dakota out of sand. Local residents have mixed feelings towards them as they were enemies until half a year ago. However, the village mayor Shintaro, comes to a decision after much deliberation to keep to the local spirit to help those in need, and invite the British soldiers to stay at his family inn until the Dakota is ready to take off. The British are cautious at first but gradually open up to the warm welcome by the residents of the island. 

    While local residents and the British soldiers get to know each other and are busy working together to build a runway for the Dakota, Kenichi learns that the plane used to belong to a British General on the Burma front where his best friend Yoshiharu died. One night, enraged, Kenichi heads to the beach where the Dakota is stranded with intent...