Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Documentary at a school in Nagano Prefecture

"Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress" (1971) chronicles a decisive phase in the struggle against the construction of the Narita International...