The rebels who told Hollywood AND Tokyo to shove it — then made magic.
After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances, there were people who set up their own independent production companies and embarked on film production without relying on corporations. This documentary film focuses on the passionate "spirit of film" of directors such as Satsuo Yamamoto and Tadashi Imai, who, despite many hardships, produced a succession of masterpieces overflowing with humanism and rebellious spirit.
Direction
Ikeda weaves archival gold with intimate testimony.
Production
Painstaking reconstruction of a buried cinematic history.
Director
Hiroo Ikeda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Toho Dispute of 1946-50 saw 5,000+ workers strike against Japan's biggest studio — this doc finally gives the ousted artists their due.
Yoji Yamada appears here as witness; he'd later become the last surviving link to this era, directing until age 91.
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