A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
May 24, 1975
Original Title:
どっこい!人間節 寿・自由労働者の街
Alternate Titles:
Dokkoi! Ningen bushi – Kotobukicho: Jiyu rodosha no machi
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Ogawa Productions
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 121
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London
Director:
Shinsuke Ogawa
Director of Photography:
Yûji Okumura
Producer:
Hiroo Fuseya
Yoko Shiraishi
Setsuko Asahi
Iizuka Toshio
Fukuda Katsuhiko
Sound:
Yukio Kubota
Sound Assistant:
Toyohiko Kuribayashi
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.