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Narita:
Heta Village
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1973
/ B&W / 16mm / 146 min / Japanese with English subtitles
Production Company: Ogawa Productions
Staff: Ogawa Shinsuke, Fukuda Katsuhiko, Yumoto Mareo, Iwasaki
Seiji, Shiraishi Yoko, Nakano Chihiro, Tamura Masaki (Photography),
Kawakami Koichi, Hara Tadashi (Camera Assistants), Kubota Yukio (Sound),
Asanuma Yukikazu (Sound Assistance)
Production Staff: Iizuka Toshio
Tadokoro Naoki, Nosaka Haruo, Fuseya Hiroo, Honma Shusuke, Mikado
Sadatoshi
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Narita: Heta Village is the inverse image of the rough, action-packed
films like Summer in Narita. The airport struggle continues,
but our access to it is mediated entirely by its traces on village
life and villagers' consciousness. While the first films connected
to the student movement concentrate on the spectacle of movement,
the filmmakers gradually attended to the peripheries of the actual
battles. This reaches its natural end in Narita: Heta Village.
Now the axis of the film is located completely, deeply within the
world of the villagers. We may not see the warfare at the construction
site, but we are all the more aware of its terrible impact. The elders
are disturbed when their communal graveyard falls into the hands of
the airport authorities; the young people share their fear of arrest
after three policemen are killed...all of this in a series of calm,
lengthy sequence shots. This approach starts from the position of
the filmed "object" and ends there as well.
[Abé Mark Nornes]
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