The second 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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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Shinsuke Ogawa – Nippon Kaiho sensen: Sanrizuka AKA Winter in Sanrizuka (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

After Summer, Ogawa Pro attempted a more epic scale with Winter in Sanrizuka. It was roundly criticised as a failure. In the wake of this criticism, the collective became increasingly militant. They decided to make a quick and dirty report from the front, calling it a “bullet film.” They shot this agit-prop film in three days, when 2,500 protestors battled 6,500 police. Even the school had been let out so children could participate in the action.

Note: the audio occasionally drifts very slightly out of sync, but this is inherent in the original film.

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese Hardcoded for some dialogue

The post Shinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Daisanji kyosei sokuryo soshi toso AKA Sanrizuka: The Three-Day War (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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.

1.56GB | 1h 25m | 720×540 | mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:None

The post Shinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Iwayama ni tetto ga dekita AKA Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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SEA OF YOUTH was Ogawa’s first directorial effort. After leaving Iwanami Productions along with most of his cohort, he struck an unusual path. He gathered young activists together to make an independent documentary on the plight of correspondence students. The film features the group itself as they plot their activism. Many of the onscreen personalities would become core members of Ogawa Productions. The film met only mild success in fundraising, so they completed it by selling off books and blood.

David Desser wrote:
Ogawa’s first film, “Seinen no umi” (“Sea of Youth,” 1966), conccerns four correspondence students trying to earn a college degree. This inaugurates Ogawa’s concern with youth and with discrimination. The film (about thirty minutes long) begins with shots of the students (three men and a woman) picketing and carrying signs. This is intercut with shots of uniformed college students playing football. The crosscutting has the effect of comparing the plight of the correspondence students, who have turned to activism out of necessity, to their classmates who have time for fun and games. Through voice-over narration (a common technique in Ogawa’s films) we learn that there are 60,000 young people who attend Japanese colleges as correspondence students. Most of their number are working-class kids who hold down full-time jobs. These students are, of course, required to have the same number of credit hours for graduation as all other students. The issue at hand is the government’s attempt to enforce a time limit in which those credit hours may be earned. Such a constraint would make earning a degree virtually impossible given the correspondence students’ circumstances. To fight this proposed legislation, these four students have formed a committee to organize a protest campaign. This strategy upsets some of the faculty who discuss abandoning the entire correspondence system, and it alienates many of the full-time students who refuse to march in support of their part-time classmates. The correspondence students, despite this hostility, continue their struggle. “Sea of Youth” overtly supports the correspondence students in their cause and thus gives voice to a near-voiceless, powerless minority.

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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The seventh and final film in Shinsuke Ogawa’s groundbreaking Sanrizuka Series chronicling the agrarian resistance to the construction of Chiba Prefecture’s Narita International Airport.

1.50GB | 1h 21m | 720×540 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/43F45DB2C34A72B/Sanrizuka_-_The_Sky_of_May_(1977).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese Hardcoded for some dialogue

The post Shinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Gogatu no sora Sato no kayoiji AKA Sanrizuka: The Sky of May (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

As the protests at Sanrizuka transformed, Ogawa began looking for other subjects. He eventually moved to Yamagata, but considered other subjects like this one: the brutal Kotobukicho district of Yokohama. Only 250 meters on a side, it was home to 6,000 people living in 90 run-down flophouses. This was where day laborers live and die on the streets. Following the method they developed in Sanrizuka, Ogawa’s crew lived with the workers, tenderly filming the trials of their daily lives. It is a touching and heartrending film.

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

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After SEA OF YOUTH, the film team turned itself into a full-fledged collective: the Independent Screening Organization, or Jieso for short. This was the precursor to Ogawa Productions, and as the name indicates their focus was on reception. This was because they discovered there was no easy way to show SEA OF YOUTH. Jieso networked social movements and film fans across Japan to create an alternative distribution route. Their next film, FOREST OF OPPRESSION, turns to the phenomenon of students barricading themselves inside schools to various political ends. They chose Takasaki City University of Economics, and audiences were shocked by the vigor and violence of this protest in such a minor university. The film put Ogawa on the map.

1.88GB | 1 h 42 min | 720×540 | mkv

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Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Shinsuke Ogawa – Assatsu no mori AKA Forest of Oppression AKA The Oppressed Students (1967) first appeared on Cinema of the World.