Three Days War in Narita
OGAWA Shinsuke
- Japan
- 1970
- 48min
- 12 +
- DCP
- black and white
Synopsis
The third work of Sanrizuka 7. Four years after the announcement of the construction, the struggle in Sanrizuka intensifies day after day. Meanwhile the airport authority carried out surveys of the land. Farmer’s resistance put up barricades and manures to block the police task force. As a result, the survey planned out for a week ended in three days. Ogawa production recorded the war- like confrontation at the forefront during that time.
Review
Three Day War in Narita is a 50-minute-long film released just three months after Winter in Narita. This project was released in such a short period because an emergency, so-called a turning point happened in the struggle to stop the construction. In 1970, the airport authority announced a plan to force large-scale research on the land. Farmers violently obstructed the research team consisting with police task force, bulldozers, and helicopters. The research scheduled for a week ends in three days. Ogawa and his production team jumped to the forefront to record every little detail that happened, they sought to make a “bullet film,” that could strike opponents as fast as a bullet. Three Day War in Narita was released both in Japan and globally as breaking news announcing the situation of Sanrizuka. It is a unique type of distribution method where all the exchanges among Ogawa Production, resistance groups, and filmmakers around the world including the USA and France were shown.
Director
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OGAWA Shinsuke
Ogawa Shinsuke is one of the most influential Japanese documentarians after the war. His filmmaking collective, OGAWA PRODUCTION, was created in the late 1960s and produced a number of films, such as the NARITA and MAGINO VILLAGE series, which dealt with political conflicts and grassroots culture in Japan. In addition, he played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.