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A Rebel's Fortress
JAPAN · 1964

A Rebel's Fortress

Nagisa Oshima
land expropriation environmental protest community resistance civil disobedience industrial development
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Synopsis

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki Murahara constructs the “beehive fortress,” the point of reference for the protest movement opposing the decision to expropriate land.

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