Movies

  • 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
  • 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...

    Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village
  • 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...

    A Movie Capital
  • 1981
    A Visit to Ogawa Productions

    A Visit to Ogawa Productions

    A Visit to Ogawa Productions

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    A Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film...

    A Visit to Ogawa Productions
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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...

    The Oppressed Students
  • 1962
    Hokkaido, My Love

    Hokkaido, My Love

    Hokkaido, My Love

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    A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

    Hokkaido, My Love
  • 2001
    Red Persimmons

    Red Persimmons

    Red Persimmons

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    The ostensible subject of this film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The...

    Red Persimmons
  • 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
  • 1958
    Yamani ikiru kora

    Yamani ikiru kora

    Yamani ikiru kora

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    Documentary at a school in Nagano Prefecture

    Yamani ikiru kora
  • 2002
    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

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    Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
  • 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...

    Sanrizuka: The Sky of May
  • 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...

    Sanrizuka: The Three Day War
  • 1966
    Sea of Youth

    Sea of Youth

    Sea of Youth

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    Ogawa Shinsuke’s directorical debut traces the struggle of four students who lead the opposition against the Ministry of Education’s...

    Sea of Youth
  • 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...

    Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom
  • 1970
    Winter In Sanrizuka

    Winter In Sanrizuka

    Winter In Sanrizuka

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    Winter In Sanrizuka
  • 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...

    Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower
  • 1967
    Report from Haneda

    Report from Haneda

    Report from Haneda

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    A film made with a group of student and worker activists during the Haneda 1967 protests against Japan’s cooperation with the US and the...

    Report from Haneda
  • 1957
    Chiisana gen-ei

    Chiisana gen-ei

    Chiisana gen-ei

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    Chiisana gen-ei