Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

88 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2000

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement of the late 60's; the fight by farmers to save their land from government confiscaton for the Narita airport at Sanrizuka; and the village life of a small farming community, Magino Village, in northern Japan. These heartbreaking and sometimes funny stories have never been told on film before. Rare footage, stills, and diaries with interviews with Oshima Nagisa, Hara Kazuo and Robert Kramer make this historical inquiry visually exciting as well as valuable.

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

88 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2000

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement of the late 60's; the fight by farmers to save their land from government confiscaton for the Narita airport at Sanrizuka; and the village life of a small farming community, Magino Village, in northern Japan. These heartbreaking and sometimes funny stories have never been told on film before. Rare footage, stills, and diaries with interviews with Oshima Nagisa, Hara Kazuo and Robert Kramer make this historical inquiry visually exciting as well as valuable.
Producers Barbara Hammer Productions
Original title Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Directors Barbara Hammer
Writers

Cast

Nagisa ƌshima

as Himself

Shinsuke Ogawa

as Himself

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

as himself

Kazuo Hara

as himself

Robert Kramer

as Himself

Hiroo Fuseya

as Himself / Self

Sumiko Haneda

as Self

Iizuka Toshio

as Self

Yoshio Shimizu

as Self