Directed by Mitsuo Sato and Kyoichi Yamaoka, Yama – Attack to Attack (1985) is a documentary that exposes the workers' struggle during Japan's economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo's Sanya "yoseba," a slum community dating from the 19th century where day laborers lived in terrible conditions while they sought work. Still as relevant as ever, Yama is a vital record of a still unresolved chapter of postwar Japanese history that sheds light on the dark underbelly of labor power relations under capitalism. The film was screened by the Harvard Film Archive as part of the program "Cinema of Resistance."
Yama – Attack to Attack
Directed by Mitsuo Sato and Kyoichi Yamaoka.
Japan, 1985, 16mm, color, 110 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
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Harvard Film Archive Screening co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute