Green Jail

Grandma HASHIMA is the last Taiwanese who knows the secrets of ‘Green Jail’, the notorious coal mine before World War II in Okinawa, Japan. With hardly any visitors, she lives alone in an old and shaggy wooden house by the ‘jail on the sea’ where her family once lived, she recounts her experience of the coal mine days on the island. Through her memories of guilt, pain, anger, and the miseries of the past 80 years, this film portrays the last years of Grandma HASHIMA’s life.