Shinsuke Ogawa

Red Persimmons (2001)

The ostensible subject of this film is the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons in the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama. The inhabitants explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persim ...

A Movie Capital (1991)

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous ...

Magino Village: A Tale (1987)

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 film are fictional reenactments of the history of the village in the sections titled "The Tale of Horikiri ...

Furuyashiki: A Japanese Village (1982)

This is Ogawa Productions' first major film from their Yamagata period. They had already started photography on Magino Village -A Tale but they were drawn to this village deep in the high country above Magino when a particularly cold bout of weather threat ...

The Magino Village Story: Pass (1978)

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

The Magino Village Story: Raising Silkworms (1977)

Ogawa Production Staff, who moved to Makinomura in Yamagata Prefecture, looks at sericulture, sericulture labor, agriculture ... Let's listen to people's words and stare for the sake of staring ... ...

Sanrizuka: The Sky of May (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 an ...

Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom (1975)

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the ...

Sanrizuka: Heta Village (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 Building of Iwayama Tower (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. ...

Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)

"Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress" (1971) chronicles a decisive phase in the struggle against the construction of the Narita International Airport, as farmers in Sanrizuka adopted new defensive tactics, including the construction of fortified to ...

Sanrizuka: The Three-Day War (1970)

"Sanrizuka: The Three-Day War" is a documentary by Shinsuke Ogawa chronicling the escalation of conflict surrounding the Japanese government's plan to build a new international airport on farmland in Sanrizuka near Tokyo. As farmers resisted eviction and a ...

Winter in Sanrizuka (1970)

Summer in Sanrizuka (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 farmer ...

Report from Haneda (1967)

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 Vietnam war. The film subverts the conventions of mainstream television news coverage to investigate in great detail th ...

The Oppressed Students (1967)

A galvanising documentary about the organised resistance of a group of students barricaded at the Takasaki City University of Economics. The university student struggles at the end of the 1960s in Japan were the culmination of over a decade of protests, so ...

Sea of Youth (1966)

Ogawa Shinsuke's directorical debut traces the struggle of four students who lead the opposition against the Ministry of Education's proposed revision to the university correspondence school systems in 1966. ...

Hokkaido, My Love (1962)

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

Yamani ikiru kora (1958)

Documentary at a school in Nagano Prefecture ...

Chiisana gen-ei (1957)

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement ...

A Movie Capital (1991)

This film is a record of the first Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. It reflects the various ways the festival was given shape by nascent global changes embodied by Perestroika, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and many other contemporaneous ...

A Visit to Ogawa Productions (1981)

A Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives. As the film reveals, Ogawa Productions' in-depth portraits of Japanese society - whether of protest movem ...

Sanrizuka: Heta Village (1973)

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