오키나와전투와 ‘1피트운동’의 기억의 정치

초록

The One-Foot Film Movement was a grassroots peace movement for teaching children the realities of the battle of Okinawa and sending the world the sincere wish for peace by collecting and recomposing the visual records of the battle with Okinawan peoples’ own hands and from their own point of view, based on the purchase of the films shot by the U.S. military during the battle with the fund raising of money for one-foot film footage each person. The movement started on December 8, 1983 and had done a variety of activities including film purchase, making and releasing its own documentary films, war survivors’ lectures, and peace movements until its dissolution on March 15, 2013. It had made four films on the basis of the film footage bought from the U.S. National Archives: The Battle of Okinawa・Testimony for the Future(1986), A Document of the Battle of Okinawa, Told One Foot at a Time(1995), Testimonies of the Battle of Okinawa(2005), The Islands Where There Were Troops: Testimonies from Kerama(2009). This article reviews the trajectories of the movement and examines the politics of memory in its film texts focusing on the three themes: memory of the war, the portraits of Showa Emperor, and the images of Korean military laborers. The One-Foot Film Movement waged its ‘war over the memory’ with the visualization of the Okinawan memory resisting the subsumption into the official history of the nation Japan.

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