“In  The Cocktail Party, writer-director Regge Life  takes on the controversial subject of the American military presence on Okinawa and renders it powerful and personal.  The essence of effective historical drama is to translate large geopolitical abstractions into concrete human interactions – and that is exactly what  The Cocktail Party  does.  US-Japan relations, racial tensions, military presence in civil society, violence and rape, ...

COCKTAIL PARTY will screen October 23rd at Film Columbia. Follow this link for information.   http://www.filmcolumbia.org/schedule-and-tickets/tickets/page/3?sortby=venue&pageby=24&festival=2015 ...

  The Cocktail Party is a compelling look at what at first appears to be another military rape by a young American soldier on the Japanese Okinawan islands, heavily inhabited by U.S. bases. Okinawa is at least twice afflicted, first by the Japanese who claimed the Ryukyu Islands as their own, making Okinawans second-class citizens and running rampant over their indigenous culture. Second, the postwar agreements placing the majority of the post-Occupation U.S. troops on these islands mea...