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製作：「山谷」制作上映委員会 Production Company : " YAMA " Production and Exhibition Committee |
| 東京、台東区から荒川区にかけての一帯はかつて山谷と呼ばれ、現在も日雇い労働者たちが集住し、仕事を求めて集まる「寄せ場」である。山谷労働者たちは雇用する連中の言いなりであり、右翼やヤクザの搾取の対象となっていた。山谷労働者たちは組合を組織し労働条件を改善しようと争議をはじめる。監督の佐藤満夫はその様子をカメラにおさめようと撮影を開始した。しかし争議は山谷労働者とヤクザの激しい攻防戦となり、撮影を始めて11日目に佐藤はヤクザによって刺殺される。労働者による人民葬の後、監督不在の混乱を経て、ようやく映画製作は日雇い労働者の主導的立場にあった山岡強一と制作上映委員会に引き継がれることになった。作品は寿町、釜ケ崎、笹島、福岡など全国の「寄せ場」を巡りながら、のたれ死にしていく労働者の姿と争議を記録してゆく。そして、日雇い労働者たちの原点として炭坑町の筑豊へと至り、再び山谷での激しい争議と象徴的に登り来る朝日ともにしめくくられる。撮影・編集が終わり上映の直前になって監督を引き継いだ山岡も右翼ヤクザによって射殺され、残念ながらこの作品に関わった二人の監督は共に亡き人となった。 | In Tokyo the area stretching from Taito Ward to Arakawa Ward was formerly called Sanya. (Locals refer to this area as " Yama " .) Today, Sanya is a place where day laborers come together to live and find work. These laborers usually do what their employers tell them, and are often targets for exploitation by yakuza gangsters and right-wing groups. But the workers decided to form a labor union and begin to fight for improved working conditions, and it was this that director Sato Mitsuo tried to capture with his camera. However, the strike became a violent clash between workers and gangsters, and on the eleventh day of filming Sato was stabbed to death by a member of the yakuza. After the funeral was over, and the confusion of not having a director had passed, the task of completing the film passed on to Yamaoka Kyoichi (a key player in the labor disputes), and the production and exhibition committee. This film takes us around the country to several gather-ing places in Kotobuki-cho, Kamagasaki, Sasajima, and Fukuoka, showing us the struggle for the cause of day laborers who are dying in poverty. We are also taken to the mining community of Chikuho, which is where many of the laborers come from. Returning to Sanya, we see once more the continuing struggle taking place there, tied together with the symbolic image of the rising sun. Unfortunately, after filming was completed, and just prior to the premiere screening, the second director Yamaoka Kyoichi was shot to death. Both directors of this film were murdered. |