山谷─やられたらやりかえせ · 1985

Yama – Attack to Attack

Name: Yama – Attack to Attack
Director: Mitsuo Sato
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1985-01-25
Duration: 110 min

Mitsuo Sato · 110 min · Japan

Documentary

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of 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.