Ogawa Productions Movies

  • 1991
    A Movie Capital

    A Movie Capital

    A Movie Capital

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    This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nasc...

    A Movie Capital
  • 1982
    Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village

    Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village

    Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village

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    This is Ogawa Productions’ first major film from their Yamagata period. They had already started photography on Magino Village -A Tale but they were d...

    Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village
  • 1987
    Magino Village: A Tale

    Magino Village: A Tale

    Magino Village: A Tale

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    The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this...

    Magino Village: A Tale
  • 1968
    The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka

    The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka

    The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka

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    In 1968, Ogawa decided to form Ogawa Productions and locate it at the newly announced construction site of Narita International Airport in a district...

    The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka
  • 1970
    Sanrizuka: The Three Day War

    Sanrizuka: The Three Day War

    Sanrizuka: The Three Day War

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    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 a...

    Sanrizuka: The Three Day War
  • 1969
    Prehistory of the Partisans

    Prehistory of the Partisans

    Prehistory of the Partisans

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    This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.

    Prehistory of the Partisans
  • 1973
    Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    Sanrizuka: Heta Village

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    Shinsuke Ogawa documentary about the life of the farmers in Heta Village opposing their resettlement due to the construction of Narita Airport.

    Sanrizuka: Heta Village
  • 1971
    Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

    Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

    Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

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    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....

    Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress
  • 1967
    The Oppressed Students

    The Oppressed Students

    The Oppressed Students

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    A galvanising documentary about the organised resistance of a group of students barricaded at the Takasaki City University of Economics. The universit...

    The Oppressed Students
  • 1975
    Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom

    Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom

    Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom

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    After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Follo...

    Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom
  • 1970
    Winter In Sanrizuka

    Winter In Sanrizuka

    Winter In Sanrizuka

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    Winter In Sanrizuka
  • 1977
    Sanrizuka: The Sky of May

    Sanrizuka: The Sky of May

    Sanrizuka: The Sky of May

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    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 t...

    Sanrizuka: The Sky of May
  • 1972
    Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower

    Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower

    Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower

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    The third film in Ogawa Productions’ Narita/Sanrizuka series of documentaries about the resistance by farmers and activists to the construction of the...

    Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower
  • 1978
    The Magino Village Story: Pass

    The Magino Village Story: Pass

    The Magino Village Story: Pass

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    This rural documentary features poet Jin Makabe. Thoughts about agriculture, memories, landscapes.

    The Magino Village Story: Pass
  • 1977
    The Magino Village Story: Raising Silkworms

    The Magino Village Story: Raising Silkworms

    The Magino Village Story: Raising Silkworms

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    Ogawa Production Staff, who moved to Makinomura in Yamagata Prefecture, looks at sericulture, sericulture labor, agriculture ... Let's listen to peopl...

    The Magino Village Story: Raising Silkworms
  • 1973
    Filmmaking and the Way to the Village

    Filmmaking and the Way to the Village

    Filmmaking and the Way to the Village

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    This film was directed by a member of the Ogawa collective, Fukuda Katsuhiko, while they were finishing the documentary Sanrizuka: Heta Village. Fukud...

    Filmmaking and the Way to the Village