This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. I Like Okinawa Sweet (Chikako Yamashiro, 2004). There is something unsettlingly liminal about Chikako Yamashiro’s work. But the almost eerie slipperiness of Yamashiro’s work goes beyond simple geopolitical metaphor. These films, and three other works by Yamashiro, will screen on Monday, March 31 at the Museum of Modern Art.