Sanrizuka Series
A series of documentaries based around the construction of Narita Airport and the local resistance it faced.
A series of documentaries based around the construction of Narita Airport and the local resistance it faced.
The Battle Front for the Liberation of Ja...
Overview: In 1968, Ogawa decided to form Ogawa Productions and locate it at the newly announced construction site of Narita International Airport in a district called Sanrizuka. Ogawa chose to locate his company in the most radical of the villages, Heta. Some farmers immediately sold their land; others vehemently protested and drew the support of social movements acr...
Rate: 6.3
Release date: 1968-10-12
Sanrizuka: The Three Day War
Overview: In 1968 the plan by the government to construct a new international airport in the fields of Sanrizuka near Tokyo unleashed one of the most important and enduring social upheavals in the history of postwar Japan. The plan sought to evict thousands of farmers from their lands without any sort of respect for the locals’ rights. Their resistance to eviction was...
Rate: 0
Release date: 1970-07-18
Winter in Sanrizuka
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Rate: 0
Release date: 1970-07-18
Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress
Overview: It's the mid 60s. Tokyo needs a new airport. There isn't anywhere in Tokyo to put it, so the government decides on displacing some adjacent villages. The peasants of these villages are not having it. What results is a remarkable act of protest and civil disobedience.
Rate: 5.7
Release date: 1971-05-23
Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower
Overview: The third film in Ogawa Productions’ Narita/Sanrizuka series of documentaries about the resistance by farmers and activists to the construction of the Narita Airport.
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Release date: 1972-10-29
Sanrizuka: Heta Village
Overview: Shinsuke Ogawa documentary about the life of the farmers in Heta Village opposing their resettlement due to the construction of Narita Airport.
Rate: 6.2
Release date: 1973-05-29
Filmmaking and the Way to the Village
Overview: This film was directed by a member of the Ogawa collective, Fukuda Katsuhiko, while they were finishing the documentary Sanrizuka: Heta Village. Fukuda left the collective after this film and continued making documentaries in the village of Heta. Credit: ICA London
Rate: 0
Release date: 1973-01-01
Sanrizuka: The Sky of May
Overview: In the mid-1970s, protests were waning across Japan after the Red Army scandal of Asama Cottage. In Sanrizuka, people were weary of the violence and the airport was well under construction. As for Ogawa Productions, they invited criticism by pulling out and moving to a quiet village in northern Japan. But when protesters back in Sanrizuka erected a tall tow...
Rate: 5
Release date: 1977-01-28
