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When fiery, brittle little Kamejiro Senaga was elected mayor of Naha last year, conservative Okinawan businessmen and U.S. authorities immediately went to work to unseat him. Senaga, an ex-journalist who ran a general store as a sideline to his job as mayor, had already served 18 months of a two-year jail sentence for harboring a wanted Japanese Communist, and was widely regarded as a Communist himself...
Mayor Senaga lost no time in making the U.S. occupation authorities miserable. Though the money spent by the U.S. on its base has made Okinawans rich beyond their modest dreams, there is resentment that the U.S. has reserved 21% of the arable land for U.S. use, planted on it jet runways, housing for 40,000 military people, and three golf courses. The Okinawan base is crucial to the West's Pacific defenses, and the U.S. has made it clear that it has no intention of turning over administration to local authorities "in the foreseeable future." Senaga played on these...
Much of the pre-release speculation about Teahouse concerned the casting of Marlon Brando as the buffoonish Okinawan interpreter and village philosopher. All doubts of his ability to play the part should be dispelled by Brando's charmingly engaging performance, even though his enunciation is about as good as that of a prizefighter swallowing his mouthpiece. Also excellent is Glenn Ford who plays the ineffectual (ex-humanities instructor) American captain assigned to bring the blessing of democracy to a village more interested is sitting in the pine grove to watch that evening sun go down and building a teahouse than...
...years the chief Okinawan thorn in the U.S. side has been an emaciated little man with a jet-black mustache and eyes that glare from behind thick spectacles. He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People's Party. The party's principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the years has resulted in the seizure of one-fifth of Okinawa's arable land and the dispossession of 50,000 Okinawans. In a low, mild voice, Senaga called the U.S. occupation authorities "criminals, murderers, rapists, arsonists...
...address to the populace, explaining to them what democracy is and that they have it. Fisby explains. Everybody cheers. The captain is delighted-until his interpreter, a picturesque chink in U.S. defenses who is known as Sakini (Marlon Brando), explains that during 800 years of foreign occupation the Okinawans have learned to cheer whoever is in charge, no matter what he says. The captain is badly shaken -and so begins an alarming assault on American theory by Okinawan practice, a shameless corruption of democracy by the rule of the people...