The festival was scaled back as a result of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami with many guests cancelling their visits and attendance down on the previous year from 380,000 to 310,000 . Only British comic writer Tony Hawks and Taiwanese director Yeh Tien Lun attended from abroad . The event was instead turned into a fundraiser raising more than US$ 1 million , including ¥ 10,949,189 ( approx . US$ 125,000 ) collected by 550 staff during the event itself . Organizers Yoshimoto Kogyo had a history of assisting in the face of such disasters having set up Osaka 's first FM radio network following the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe in 1995
Great Hanshin earthquake
Great Hanshin earthquake
3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival