The Wages of Resistance is a feature-length documentary film that portrays an "extended span of time" of the protests against building Narita International Airport which have continued from the 1960's to today through documenting monologues of those whose lives were twisted by the movement.
Direction
Patient, decades-spanning observation without exploitation.
Editing
Monologues woven into living history, no cheap sentiment.
Director
Koshiro Otsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sanrizuka Struggle remains one of Japan's longest-running civil disobedience movements, with some protest structures still physically occupying airport-adjacent land today.
Directors Haruhiko Daishima and Koshiro Otsu spent over 20 years filming, creating what critics call a 'durational documentary' where time itself becomes a protagonist.
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