2017年2月2日琉球新報
ドキュメンタリー映画「標的の島 風かたか」に込めた思いを語る三上智恵監督＝１月２７日、東京都内
【東京】沖縄の基地問題を住民の視点で捉えたドキュメンタリー映画「標的の島 風（かじ）かたか」がこのほど完成した。三上智恵監督にとっては「標的の村」「戦場（いくさば）ぬ止（とぅどぅ）み」に続く第３弾・最新作。米軍基地建設が強行された高江、辺野古だけでなく、自衛隊配備の是非で揺れる宮古島や石垣島の住民の姿にも焦点を当てた。アンガマーやパーントゥなど先島の民俗文化を受け継ぐ生活者の深い思いを基に、基地の問題を捉え返している。
タイトルにある「風かたか」は、沖縄の言葉で「風よけ」「防波堤」を意味する。映画では、昨年夏、米軍属女性暴行殺人事件の被害者を追悼する県民大会で稲嶺進名護市長が「われわれは、また命を救う風かたかになれなかった」と発言するシーンが登場する。先島で計画されている自衛隊配備やミサイル基地建設、本島の米軍基地建設の背景として、日本が沖縄を「防波堤」に、さらには米国が日本を「防波堤」にするという“入れ子構造”を浮き彫りにする。「基地があれば標的にされる」「軍隊は住民を守らない」という沖縄戦の教訓を挙げ、軍事基地化・要塞（ようさい）化が進む沖縄の現状に警鐘を鳴らしている。
三上監督は「沖縄の米軍や自衛隊が抑止力になるという勘違いや思考停止によって、日本は米国と中国のいらない戦争に国土を提供しようとしている。それを知ってほしい」と言葉に力を込める。
本土では基地建設に反対する沖縄の市民を「テロリスト」「プロ市民」「中国の手先」などと攻撃する風潮があるが「実際は普通の生活者であり、その一人一人の思いを伝えたかった」と、沖縄の民俗文化を交えた狙いを語った。
県内では２月１６、２３日、３月２日に宮古島・よしもと南の島パニパニシネマで特別先行上映する。３月１１日から桜坂劇場で上映する。本土では３月２５日の東京都中野区のポレポレ東中野を皮切りに、各地で順次公開される。
桜坂劇場の問い合わせ先は（電話）０９８（８６０）９５５５。全国での上映予定については東風（とうふう）（電話）０３（５９１９）１５４２。
英文へ→Documentary film “Targeted Island Kaji kataka” by director Mikami completed
2017年2月2日琉球新報
Documentary film “Targeted Island Kaji kataka” by director Mikami completed
February 2, 2017 Ryukyu Shimpo
A new documentary film titled “Targeted Island Kaji kataka” captures the military base issue in Okinawa from residents’ perspectives. This is the third and the latest work of the director Chie Mikami following “The Targeted Village” and “We Shall Overcome (Ikusaba nu tudumi).” This film focused not only on Takae and Henoko, where the construction of the U.S. military base was forcibly carried out, but also on the livelihood of residents of Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island, which have been rocked by the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces (SDF). Focusing on the deep feelings of the people, who are the inheritors of island folk culture such as Angama and Pantu, the film aims to look at the base issue from a new angle.
“Kaji kataka” means “wind guard” or “bulwark” in Okinawan language. In the movie, there is a scene in which Mayor Susumu Inamine of Nago City says, “Once again, we were unable to be the kaji kataka that protects life.” He was speaking at the prefectural convention, which commemorated the victim of the murder case by the U.S. civilian military worker last summer. The film highlights an embedded structure in which Japan uses Okinawa as “bulwark,” and the U.S. uses Japan as “bulwark”. It depicts this theme as the background of the planned SDF deployment in these islands, the construction of the missile base, and the construction of the new U.S. military base on Okinawa Island. Stressing the lessons learned from the Battle of Okinawa – that the military base could become a target (of attack) and the army does not protect residents – the film warns of the danger of the current situation in Okinawa where militarization and fortification have become intensified.
Director Mikami said, “With the misunderstanding and brain-freeze of many, who think that the U.S. military and the SDF in Okinawa will be a deterrence, Japan is trying to provide land for the war which the United States and China do not need. It is my hope that the audience will understand that.”
In mainland Japan, there is a tendency to discredit activists in Okinawa by calling them “terrorists”, “professional citizens,” and “Chinese faction,” Mikami talked about the reason for including Okinawan folk culture in the film; “In reality, they are normal residents, and I wanted to convey each person’s thought.”
In Okinawa, a special preliminary screening will be held on February 16, 23, and March 2 at the Yoshimoto Minami no shima Panipani Cinema on Miyako Island. The film will be screened at Sakurazaka Theatre from March 11. On mainland Japan, the screening starts at the Porepore Higashinakano in Nakano, Tokyo, on March 25, and the film will be released in various places in succession.
For inquiries about Sakurazaka Theatre, call 098 (860) 9555. For the schedule of screenings in Japan, call ToFoo 03 (5919) 1542.
(English translation by T&CT and Megumi Chibana)
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