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Sanrizuka Series Movies Online Streaming Guide

A series of documentaries based around the construction of Narita Airport and the local resistance it faced.

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

    October 12, 1968

    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 across the country. Together they clashed with riot police sent in to protect surveyors, who were plotting out the airport. Summer in Sanrizuka is a messy film – its chaos communicating the passions and actions on the ground.

  • Winter In Sanrizuka

    July 18, 1970
  • Sanrizuka: Peasants of the Second Fortress

    May 23, 1971

    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.

  • Sanrizuka: The Building of Iwayama Tower

    October 29, 1972

    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.

  • Sanrizuka: Heta Village

    May 29, 1973

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

  • Sanrizuka: The Sky of May

    January 28, 1977

    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 tower at the end of one runway, they sent a crew to document what happened. This became the final film of the Sanrizuka Series.

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