Kumi Odori 組踊, Shikina-en 識名園 and Okinawa
When I was 14, I wanted to visit Okinawa because I fell in love with an Okinawa girl. Unfortunately, said Okinawa girl was a member of Japanese pop group called SPEED (... where all four members were from Okinawa). Looooong after my teens ended, I finally had the chance to fulfil my dreams when I was invited to the Okinawa International Film Festival last month to be one of the speakers at the Asia Content Gathering Symposium (other speakers include my pal Lim Kah Wai the Osaka-based Malaysian filmmaker, the Okinawan filmmaker Soichi Takayama and Cambodia Film Commission CEO Cedric Eloy).