“After Spring, the Tamaki Family…”

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 Japan 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.