Hula Girls
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
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Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Abstract music notation and something very obvious.
Sophie and Brooke are two women hanging out at home, bored and listless. To break the monotony of everyday life, Brooke impulsively buys two hula hoops, much to Sophie's skepticism.
Hiwa Natsunagi is a high school student living in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. Worried about what to do with her life after graduation, she spots a poster for Spa Resort Hawaiians the “Hawaii of Tohoku” the place w
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.
Kekaiulu Hula Studio follows the Proclaimed Hula Halau of the same name, showcasing their twist on what the real reason for hula is and what life as a dancer in the halau is really like. Something previously unseen in t
A dirge-like hula song illustrates humanity's woes. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
A stark, looping performance piece in which Sigalit Landau spins a hula hoop made of barbed wire at sunrise on a Tel‑Aviv beach. The work turns a familiar gesture into a charged act of desensitization, merging bodily ris
The Talking Magpies, Heckle and Jackle, open a hot-dog concession stand in Hawaii. The first customer is a dumb dog who becomes the innocent victim of the merry, mischief-making magpies. Another dog, a tough one, is gett
"Gray's Anatomy" meets "Swingers" in this medical comedy as medical intern Ron Wilson plots to become Chief Resident with the help of Ivy League reject Steven Powell. As Dr. Wilson fights for survival in a busy county ho
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their
1930s short of a woman doing a hula dance, initially with a grass skirt, then nude.
Tokyo Hula explores the explosive popularity of the hula dance in Japan from both Native Hawaiian and Japanese perspectives. Today it is estimated there are nearly 2 million people dancing hula in Japan – a figure greate
This resonant documentary chronicles a year in the lives of two ever-squabbling Israeli brothers -- junkyard owners Hula and Natan -- as they face not only frequent missile attacks from the Gaza Strip but government thre
A 94 year-old Australian named Joan Anderson and the true, surprising and unfortunate untold story behind one of the biggest fads in modern American history.
Henry Murdock & Babe London go on Honeymoon to Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Spa Resort in Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, was heavily damaged by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This documentary accompanies their famous Hula dance troupe at their tour through Japan and shows the rebuilding
In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like ca