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The Peasants of the Second Fortress is the fourth in a series of seven films shot between 1968 and 1977 in the fields of Sanrizuka, documenting the ongoing resistance by the farmers and their allies against the construction of a new international airport. Four years into the conflict, the authorities started the coercive expropriation of the farmlands and the violence escalated. This was met by the farmers and fighting students with a renewed sense of resistance, and with the need to organize, unite and protect themselves and the land from the riot police.
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Cast:
Shinsuke Ogawa -
Original Title:
Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito -
Country:
Japan -
Year:
1971 - 143' Subtitles: English
Director
Shinsuke Ogawa
Shinsuke Ogawa was born in 1935, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. He was a documentary film director. Ogawa's was a committed form of documentary, which clearly took the side of those combatting unjust power. Turning independent, he first made documentaries about radical political movements in 1960s and 1970s Japan, most famously the Sanrizuka or Narita series, which recorded the struggle by farmers and student protesters to prevent the construction of the Narita International Airport in Sanrizuka, Chiba Prefecture. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for Summer in Narita in 1970.