Original subtitles

Produced by OGAWA PRODUCTIONS

Suddenly in July, 1967,

the government decided to build an airport in Narita.

In October, 1967 the Airport Corporation began pile driving

backed by 2000 mobile riot policemen.

In March, 1968, the Corporation began land surveys

of land belonging to pro-airport farmers.

The cast of this film consists of a coalition of anti-airport farmers,

students, nationwide anti-war groups, Ogawa Productions,

Airport Corporation workers and riot police flying squads.

You've ruined my watermelons!

What are you going to do?

You bastards!

Can't you control them?

How dare you!

Tell your men to stop it!

First remove the barricades.

It's an illegal obstruction, you are breaking the law!

Remove the barricade immediately.

You riot cops!

You're the ones who're trampling our fields. It's just more of your lies.

And you won't even take responsibility!

You lie and you break your own damn laws!

No one's throwing stones.

Yes, you did.

I'm not that sort of man.

You're the ones trespassing.

And you just destroyed a field of our watermelons.

You've gone and totally ruined the crop.

We have a designated spokesman.

Address your complaints to him.

Hwy. 51 reports a 150 member flying squad of riot police.

They are accompanied by

Corporation workers and plain-clothes detectives.

The protesters are heading for Suzuki's place.

There are five rows of them.

The leader is agitating from a moving vehicle.

Three-five to patrol.

Hello, 3-5, this is 6-5, over.

Loud and clear. Go ahead, over.

The truck bound riot troups are heading for Narita.

But we've missed them.

They're probably moving around behind you. Over.

The Corporation men are moving away,

and they're now passing the fields, over.

They're issuing a warning.

They're demanding that we clear the area of any and all traffic.

Our side is chanting in protest.

Our command car is in front of the flying squad, and is leading the demonstration.

The cops are spreading nets. Better stop throwing stones.

The lead police car has approached our position.

It's stopped about 50 cm from our first line.

They're saying that if we do not

clear the road they have the right to arrest us.

We've managed to stop the police.

It's a face-off and no one is moving.

Including this vehicle...

Tomura is protesting to the police from the car.

All the police units have started to move.

We are unable to proceed...

SUMMER IN SANRIZUKA

Directed by Shinsuke OGAWA

Filmed by Koshiro OTSU Masaki TAMURA

Produced by Hideko KOBAYASHI Hiroo FUSEYA and Takatsugu ICHIYAMA

This is agitation vehicle #1, over.

Corporation workers are approaching.

About thirty of them, all wearing yellow helmets,

heading for Watanabe's place.

This is the anti-airport agi-prop car.

You airport-farmers please listen.

You have allowed corporation workers onto your land.

We interpret this to mean you are in favor

of construction of a 4000 meter runway.

Regardless of your capitulation,

we will resort to violence to stop them.

If you continue to cooperate with the government...

...if you allow them to carry out their survey,

we have no choice but to protest against you, too.

They're sending riot troops against us.

You don't care, do you?

Get out of here!

What's your name Got one, haven't you?

What you're doing is against all moral laws.

Are you a civil servant? Take off your glasses.

You're just bringing hardships to the farmers.

In the long run, you'll pay for this.

They're just farmers, you know.

Get the hell out!

You're only bringing pain!

We'll fight against you to the very end.

You'll never build your damn airport!

Stop your survey and get out now.

We know you're just doing your job.

But with the rain and your survey,

we're unable to tend to the crops in our fields.

This is the worst season for us.

It's really unfair that you come here now.

It's like you're tormenting us.

As long as some of us still opose your airport,

stop your survey and leave us alone.

We don't want your damn airport!

Unless you immediately disband...

you will all be arrested.

You're exposing you fellows to risk of injury.

Can you sanction that?

Attention riot police!

The Emperor Meiji envisioned a cattle ranch right here.

Now you want to bulldoze it all away!

On His behalf we'll shower you with cow-shit!

Is this how you fight? Against women?

You filthy wretches! Get out!

Why are you armed?

If you injure our people, you'll never be forgiven.

Get out of here!

We're farmers. We're not armed and trained fighters!

What do you know of us?

Will you beat farmers and women with your billy-clubs?

Shame on you! You're despicable!

Please conduct your protest properly.

We'd like you to stop your illegal acts.

In the Vietnam War, a peasant base

was pitted against the hi-tech American military.

The Vietnamese weapons were vastly inferior.

Almost no comparison.

How did they resist the world's greatest military power

for seven years, and then go on to defeat it?

The answer is the spirit and the purity of the peasant.

Our fight against the forces of government

should mimic that of the Vietnamese farmers.

We are small in number and we're unarmed.

No match for their armoured cars and water cannons.

Their hi-tech, extendible billy-clubs,

their semi-armoured uniforms, and their guns.

We have none of these and we are weak.

But it's been two years since we started fighting.

What has kept us going is our spirit.

Not like those who folded and accepted their terms.

The government is afraid of us.

We have rejected their offers to talk about this airport.

We've been fighting against the government.

To them we farmers are a nuisance.

But they must get rid of us.

So the resort to violence.

But this has only increased our fighting spirit.

Why, you ask?

Let's consider the power of us as individuals.

That power belongs to nobody.

It is the collective power of the farmers on the land.

That power gives us our fighting spirit.

Even if injured, the power to fight remains.

If we follow the 'acceptable' means of protest,

there'll be no resolution in our favor.

We must fight face to face with them.

By doing so, we can win.

I remind you that we bear no arms to fight with.

Even in the face of the riot police,

we're limited to simple farming implements.

We must use our farming tools to defend ourselves.

That is what we must do.

Ours is different from historical peasant uprisings.

Ours is a liberal war,

a revolution of farmers.

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have been exploited by

and forced to obey the government.

Now those farmers have risen to their feet

and here have begun to fight the national power.

We should not be afraid of the flying squad riot police.

We should not be afraid of death and restraints.

This fight should be fought to the limit.

To the extend where one or two of them loses their head.

We should be prepared to go that far.

Pull back! We're spraying gas!

We're spraying gas!

They're coming up this way, so stop them here.

Not from over there.

That'll only cut off our escape route.

There's no need to escape.

One day the Narita headquarters was attacked,

by protesters excluding the farmers.

The protesters became angry at the farmers.

We won something today.

You should offer some help with our retreat.

The location is bad. The fields would be destroyed.

There is no way to retreat.

It's not as if we're going suddenly start winning.

Who asked these kids her, anyway?

Forget that. What we need is a victory.

Get ready with your clubs.

Next time attack with your clubs.

Be wraned! We're using tear gas.

WE DON'T WANT YOUR AIRPORT

We can't escape.

If we had some way of retreat it would be okay.

But here we're sandwiched from both sides.

It's like they done this on purpose.

If you really want to leave us like this,

we can't fight together. And I'll do it my way.

The background to the Narita dispute

is very complicated.

It affects the whole nation.

It's a matter of getting rid of the LDP cabinet,

or fighting with the farmers and being killed by them.

Either we are killed or we survive.

We fought against the Vietnam war, too.

The most important thing is that ordinary farmers

have adopted our fighting tactics.

This has never happened before.

The way the farmers think has changed.

Frankly, our situation is quite severe.

We're endlessly fighting against people like the surveyors

who day in and day out come to do their work.

But we've also got work to do in the fields.

So we all are exhausted, mentally and physically.

It's hard for us to keep going under these conditions.

But that's not to deny what we're doing here.

The point is, how do we let the rest of the nation know?

How can we get their approval for our actions?

That's why we must continue the armed struggle.

We've tried various tactics, sit-ins, running battles...

Only to learn that there's no way we can possibly

beat an army of armed riot police.

But we must continue the fight.

The politicians have their own methods.

Like distibuting thousands of handbills.

But our armed struggle is a far better way to impress the people.

The riot police fight with clubs, shields and tear gas.

If we fight we must inflict some damage to them.

We should use some kind of weapons.

Sit-ins are useless against armed riot police.

If we do use weapons,

consider the politicians who started this.

The ones who try to crush us.

I wouldn't hesitate to use weapons against them.

There's also revenge for our injured and arrested.

It's some kind of power game.

The first victory will win the game.

We can say the same thing about the riot police.

They're people just like we are.

But the first to score an overwhelming victory wins.

We won't kill anyone with guns.

Arming oneself suggests going on the offensive

Like today's fighting...

Their arms gives us justification.

It shows the determination of our alliance.

How should I say it...

It gives our stance a validity to the very end.

You see, because they are armed and they are trying to beat us

using their weapons, we have to fight back using our weapons.

Of course, we're never going to beat them in battle.

It's impossible for us to... say, wipe them out.

But at least we showcase our justification.

And in this case that means using violence.

To really press your case, you must be violent.

How many men do you count? Over.

We estimate about 25 in total, over.

Okay. Stay with them and keep in contact, over.

The riot police are gathering in Toho.

Some have gone to the local forestry office.

The ones passing point 24.27 are all assembling

in the street in front of the shrine.

Seven carloads of Corporation men have also appeared...

Riot police go home!

Why are you here?

Why did you come here fully armed?

People! Please witness what the riot police will do to us.

We are only demanding our lawful rights!

This land took us decades to reclaim from swamp.

All we want is to protect our land!

We refuse to let them confiscate our ancestral land!

Surely that is reasonable?

While we are demanding justice

why does the government send in riot police?

And why do they have to be armed?

Are you working for the citizens?

Or are you running dogs for the government?

You insist you're not working for the government,

but what you're doing right now is...

being mercenaries for the government.

Riot police coming in force. There's a whole fleet of them.

A total of 8 cars and one bus...

Anyway, that's the situation.

They apparently came from Shinden up the back way...

...past Okubo's house but then they disappeared.

We've no idea where they went.

Where would they be?

Probably at the forestry office.

Most likely.

How many small cars?

Five, plus one saloon and a patrol car.

They'll be at the forestry office.

The Okubo and Ota families have caved in.

Okubo has no parking lot, so they're probably at Ota's.

It's the 2nd place down from the shrine.

Next door to Ito's place. Ito also caved in.

So they've got most of Toho.

So that means we've got to hang in here.

They'll probably get this place, too.

Don't forget we're determined not to give in.

This will become the main battleground.

Okay, but we're still on for the 12:10 gathering.

Blow the siren at 12:00.

Get the mikes and let's give'em hell!

SANRIZUKA ANTI-AIRPORT BRIGADE

Everyone gathers here?

First let's meet at the shrine and gather rocks.

Then come back here for the demonstration.

Give a blast on the siren.

We come here first?

Probably through this way.

That's completely the opposite direction.

So we'd better decide now what to do.

We've got a squad of riot police

all decked out and getting into formation.

Good work.

You filthy rats!

You slimy bastards!

There's water for you over there.

Okay, let's move out.

They should be ashamed of themselves!

The turncoats were scared so they...

carried out the surveys in secret.

The corporation sent out a guy on a bike to tell them.

The village official got the request

and is going to each of the homes tonight.

The riot police and the chief surveyor of the corporation

meet every morning at 9:30.

[Untrasnlated] before heading out for Sanrizuka.

Then they encircle the shed of the protesting farmers.

Waiting to pounce on student demonstrators.

The siren was supposed to go off 2 hrs. 20 mins ago.

You can't expect us to come without the siren.

Without the siren, we don't know.

That's the arrangement we made.

Without the siren everyone keeps working.

If they come, how are we supposed to know?

Have the men gathered?

Of course not!

We can't be expected to react if you don't act!

In the confusion, they've started the surveys.

All we could do was swear at them.

I just got back from doing that.

We told them to get out and stay out.

It's hard to fight every single day.

Not that we'd mind doing it.

We'd rather have false alarms, than no signal at all.

It's to be expected.

We should be ready for anything.

If we wait until the riot police get here - it's too late.

The riot police and the workers arrive separately.

About 20 mins apart.

The workers come first then the riot police.

The battles only last for about 20 - 30 mins, anyway.

We've got one patrol car, one command vehicle and three other cars.

There's 20 odd members of the survey crew in Koshikawa.

And we've got a report of an unmarked cream-colored police car,

which is circling the area.

It was just as I predicted yesterday.

It doesn't do us any good now, though.

The reason it didn't go well today,

is because we're not here just to fight at any time.

We should reserve our strength for when they actually

start the surveys and the drilling.

If we can focus on these events...

then at least we can give the villagers some satisfaction.

Could you inform your people that there's going to be

a protest at Toho today at 12:30.

Look, we're just doing our jobs.

You're picking up stones and coming at us.

No, I don't mean you.

I have no rocks. I'm free to walk around.

Who sent you here?

Under whose orders? Tell me!

If you don't tell us, why should we move on?

We're here to stop demonstrations.

We respect your right to protest.

But do you have to throw stones and things at us?

We will arrest those who break the law.

But we're not against your right to protest.

If you'll break the law you'll be arrested.

Let's use our common sense.

Stop any illegal activities.

If you persist, you will be arrested.

We went to the fields but he went to the hospital.

We don't know what to do.

We're out of stones.

Let's go get some.

Throwing stones is about all we can do.

Leave piles in strategic spots.

About every 100 meters.

In the middle of the road.

With main stockpiles in the fields.

No stones, and the buggers won't come!

See if we can't get them fired.

Just before he's to get his pension!

I go out but quite frankly, it scares me.

Any persons who violate the law will be arrested.

The farmers, including myself, are totally non-political.

So when they found out about the airport plans,

without any consultation with the locals,

it became imperative to learn about politics.

Then they came to distrust the politicians.

And I was surprised to see how strong we all are.

I wouldn't have thought me capable of it.

Why are they there with their riot gear?

Who are they? What do they want?

We were all born and raised here.

They can't stop us.

This is our land. They can't stop us

from occupying the land we were born on.

Their brutality is what has made us strong.

That's why we've become so strong.

What about our protection under law?

We didn't know until the fight began.

We had no idea of our rights.

And we must study even more.

But the students trample through our crops.

Makes me sick to see it.

But that's the price we have to pay.

We can always plant again next year.

To save our fields we have to trample them.

The students know bugger all.

I'm not for these battles with the riot police.

But after the big battle I felt good.

They sent in between 2 and 3000 riot cops.

I hated to seeit.

But those kids gained our revenge.

At first I couldn't understand why they had to fight.

Now I know that those students,

were fighting for us.

The way those kids fought was just fantastic.

To me Japan has always been such a peaceful country

so I never expected to be involved with the law or the courts.

Court cases only hapen when some crime takes place.

But with this airport problem it's all cops, laws and courts.

All because they want to build an airport the farmers don't want.

If they hadn't planned to build there'd be no courts or trials.

They should have consulted with the people.

From what we heard today, only a few select people

decided behind closed doors.

That's very arrogant and outside the law.

Go home!

Spread out!

They're coming!

Go home! Go home!

We farmers have right on our side!

Why do you need weapons?

We have no weapons!

The Narita Chief Constable has issued a formal caution.

If the workers are pelted with stones,

you will all be arrested.

Riot police, go home!

Think about what you're doing! Consider our position!

Look at you - fully armed attacking farmers!

You don't have to obey immoral orders!

What will your families say when they see you like this?!

Your superiors are bad men, ignore them.

Did your parents teach you to kill farmers?

I repeat: If you throw stones, you will be arrested.

This means everyone including the elderly.

I repeat: Any attacks will result in mass arrests.

"Unlawful assembly?" You stupid bugger!

Keep goin, they'll let you through.

You pups! Let them through.

You can tell the plainclothes cops by their shifty eyes.

Look just like bloody criminals!

Same with the uniformed ones, too.

...sniffing 'round me and I told him to bugger off!

...see that shifty one telling 'em whose photo to take?

Pointing his finger like a little ponce, he was!

I shoved my hand over the lens.

Those beady little eyes... If looks could kill!

Yeah, they don't like you catching 'em out.

You can't build your airport if we don't sell our land.

There're more of us than turn-coats, you stupid buggers!

Not even if you stay for 100 years.

We'll be here again tomorrow - and every other day!

Be sure to come again, pumpkin-head!

Go home! Go home!

They carry weapons, what's wrong with our scythes?

That's something we've got to think about.

Every day without a plan, gives them the edge.

It allows them to manage their forces.

We should have a permanent organization of all groups.

We should start squatting on the land as soon as possible.

One real problem we face is the level of fighting readiness,

and the actual ability to fight,

for each individual in the movement.

We can either avarage it out to mean level,

or, as some have said, let everyone do what they please.

But that doesn't fit current conditions.

If we've got that much time there's no need for violence.

But if we don't strike a blow now, it'll be too late.

There's talk about why we carry sticks and stones.

Is it because we get pissed when they barge in?

On one level, yes.

But it's also to show our total opposition...

...to show we're opposed to the airport construction.

We're showing the government that we totally reject

their policies and their use of riot police to coerce us.

To show those who caved in and those who

stand around watching that we are united.

But whenever we do, they send in the riot police.

They respond to our demonstartions with violence.

So our weapons show our resolve and also

serve as self-defense for us.

But without any victims there's no progress.

Soon as the riot cops come, everyone runs.

Even the weakest cop sends us scurrying.

If we had a 10 or 20 member flying squad...

...strong young guys, we could really put up a fight.

The way I see it, that's our only real option.

Peasant revolts have a firm place in history.

We need guys who are not afraid of getting hurt.

We need such a squad standing behind the demonstrators.

To back us up when we move in to demonstrate.

To give the front lines some confidence.

But in any case we need some sort of unity.

We have to if we want to win the political battle.

Crush the airport!

For the first time, we are armed.

For the first time we carry sickles and billy-clubs.

Now we carry arms, too!

Expect to see us armed from now on!

We have weapons, too!

This armed brigade will march on Tenami.

We're just doing the same as the riot police.

We will drive away the riot police.

No more will they lord it over us!

The demonstration will be at Tenami.

We'll march from there to Mt. Tenjin.

July, the Corporation continues their survey.

This is the anti-airport protest group!

We are determined...

to continue to protest against the surveys!

Continue to survey and you put your life at risk!

Today they again show their ugly faces!

Beware of plain-clothes cops with tear gas tanks!

One of them is here. He's wearing a full mask. Over.

We're not obstructing!

You watch yourself!

I haven't done anything!

You're in the way!

All I said was we want to talk to someone in charge.

Down with the riot police!

Down with the Corporation!

Clear the way!

Why do we, the farmers of Narita protest?

Simply because we wish to keep our ancestral farming land!

You live off our taxes.

We slave in those fields to pay those taxes.

Your uniforms and tools were paid for by our sweat.

We are all Japanese. Your fellow countrymen.

We don't want to fight riot police. We bear you no hate.

But we must fight to preserve our ancestral land.

You're a student, aren't you? Show me some ID?

I'm not obliged to.

You little bastard! Show some ID!

Riot police, go home! Riot police, go home!

Down with the Corporation! Down with the Corporation!

Until now our demonstrations were non-violent.

But they arrested Aoyagi, who never offered any violence.

Under these conditions, we also have to be violent.

We can't keep on as we have else we'll be defeated.

We also need to have weapons to match the police.

So the young men show their weapons.

But if only small numbers have these weapons,

they'll be very noticable.

So we must give the impression that we're all armed.

So tomorrow let's all carry weapons.

Not to fight, but to boost our spirits.

I'd like to see that tomorrow.

But they're arresting us just for carrying stones.

So we must be wise in what we do.

Surely there's a more effective way.

We don't have to carry weapons to the demos.

We could stash them ahead of time.

Then get them during the demonstration.

I think helmets and working clothes are sufficient.

Even if we don't want to fight,

they're ready to beat us with their clubs.

Soon they'll switch from clubs to iron bars.

Since we started throwing rocks they armed themselves.

Even if we aren't violent, they still carry weapons.

I think having or not having weapons isn't a big deal.

Even if we don't have weapons, they'll use theirs.

If we don't throw rocks, they'll say we did.

They say you're guilty and produce witnesses.

The facts don't really matter.

If they want to arrest you, they will.

We can still win, even without weapons.

But now even the Corporation men throw rocks at us.

Even before the riot police appear.

Recently they're more violent than the riot police.

It's been said that just running away is useless.

But when you're fighting you need an escape route.

We'll soon learn who stands to fight and who runs.

It's the same with or without weapons.

I'll stick to throwing rocks.

No one will force you to be armed.

Even without weapons you'll have stones.

This non-violence has been going for over a year.

But there's no way that we'll win like that.

Ryuzaki had his ribs broken on October 10th.

As a result, we changed our policy.

The conclusion was to match their violence.

But we started to use violence only recently.

When the students faught using their billy-clubs,

we helped them by carrying rocks.

Then we started thinking about throwing rocks.

Our methods of fighting have somehow evolved.

Nobody forced us, it just grew.

We realized we had to adapt to changing conditions.

Otherwise we'll always lose.

Even if we lose, we want to go down fighting.

Everyone is beginning to think like that.

People began throwing rocks at the Corporation and police.

You plain-clothes cops should be ashamed of yourselves!

You're nothing but Corporation lap-dogs.

Go on! Take more photos of the farmers!

You stupid dunces!

You'll see our anger in your sneaky pictures.

You're not men, you're Corporation lap-dogs.

What do you want?

You're supposed to be guardians of the law!

How's about guarding the farmers for a change!

Why are you sniffing around behind the Corporation surveyors?

No protection from you, just more suffering!

Be a man... show yourself!

Did you volunteer to be lap-dogs?

You call yourselves... Japanese?!

Crush the airport! Crush the airport! Crush the airport! Crush the airport!

July 11th, our cameraman was arrested for no reason.

We kept shooting with the B camera.

Where's our cameraman?

Why was he arrested?

We were with him when they started beating us.

Some Corporation guy pointed the finger at him.

One beat him with a stick.

He didn't do anything.

He was captured, then they beat him.

You won't get away with this!

They beat him with their billy-clubs.

What do you mean, you don't know!!

Who are you? Your name!

I'm a policeman, I don't have to tell you.

Yes, you do.

Go over and ask them.

You're a civil servant. Give me your name.

We're not allowed to divulge our names.

What? Aren't you in charge here?

No, I'm not. He's not here.

No way! We know you're in charge.

Tell the truth. You arrested them.

You can't just run away!

Okay, you were just following orders.

You'll get arrested for that!

Just tell us why you arrested them.

Stop running away.

You're in charge, aren't you?

Just tell us why.

We'll let them know directly.

I can just see tomorrow's headlines!

Police violence to a film crew.

What are you doing?

Move back over there!

We want to know why you arrested them.

- I'm not obliged to tell you that. - Why you arrested them?

There must be a reason for it?

That's enough!

SINCE APRIL, THE RIOT POLICE HAVE TORMENTED THE FARMERS.

15 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED. 42 WERE BEATEN AND INJURED. 7 OF THEM HOSPITALIZED.

Why did you arrest them? Where are they now?

We're just doing our job.

That means absolutely nothing. Where are they?

I don't have to tell you anything.

Aren't you forgetting that we have rights?

Asshole! You have no rights!

When they use violence, so will we.

We'll be armed and determined.

When we think of July 2nd,

our young people were armed at the time...

...that allowed us to win without running...

...fighting for 7 long hours in the rain.

Without arms they would have been defeated.

But if they were just milling on the road

like the old folks do, there's no way they'd win.

Those young kids were very determined, right?

Even those opposed to carrying weapons would agree

in those circumstances.

Wasn't that the first time for them to be armed?

But they stood toe to toe with the riot police for 7 hours.

Thing is, how many will carry weapons?

No one, if only one in a thousand do so.

But just say for example,

if three of them are carrying sickles,

those three share a feeling of togetherness.

They share the same fears, anger, plus they feel safer.

"Togetherness" doesn't quite cover the bond that forms.

It's a very human relationship between them.

And they're firmly united in reaching a common goal.

Now we're in the worst of the big battles.

So if those three men, if they share this bond,

they become as one.

They share the same aim,

and that gives them the strength and the courage...

to fight more effectively against the enemy.

I'm not forcing anyone to arm themselves. But I will.

We have been battling together now for two years.

The relationship is firmly established.

When it comes to carrying weapons,

I can understand how some don't wish to.

A kind of courage... You have to reach in for it.

Every time you take up arms you'll be shaking with fear.

But you have to hide that fear.

Not to think about the hate from the police.

You don't think deeply about why you're armed.

Our leaders have made that quite clear.

But the combination of our fear and their hatred...

I don't think we really considered those two factors.

As we escalate the violence, we stand more chance of

getting beaten up ourselves.

But I knew those guys could do it.

I was so confident that they'd stand tall.

I'm not talking about some theoretical reading,

but those guys put their bodies into battle.

And they faught some severe battles for us.

Our protest has been their training ground.

And it instilled in them courage and determination.

Few in number, these young farmers from Hishida

and Sanrizuka have such a courage.

No matter how righteous you think your cause is...

it's very hard to declare that to thousands of people.

You're immediately in the spot-light, and there's fear, too.

If I was alone I'd not taken up weapons.

But when there's a dedicated group doing it,

it unites us, brings us together.

The idea that you aren't alone...

makes each one of us stronger.

Our armed men are our best fighters.

They're the ones who read the situation best.

They know their condition.

I don't mean theoretically... ...through their bodies.

They know that they have to resort to violence.

This is not Marx, Lenin or anything like that.

It's experienced directly through the body.

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You can't put it into words.

It's as if our bodies have absorbed the experiences.

All the emotions of battle that we've had.

A very big part of that is plain fear...

One thing I realized was that both the students,

and the young farmers who faught together,

...who knew their limits and did their very best...

...they are totally different in outlook.

The farmers' attitude toward battle is quite practical.

Whereas students tend to think in more theoretical terms.

...like the financial and legal results of being arrested.

We had enough talk. Now's the time for action.

In spite of all, I'm still confident.

The farmers are more determined than the students.

That's how we've managed to fight together till now.

The ties between us are firmly bound.

No more need for words to confirm all that.

We have a major influx of riot police.

I count over 200 of them.

They're about 50 m from the farm women's brigade.

Also, between 50 - 70 uniformed officers.

Another report of 80 riot cops.

The uniformed cops are advancing on the women.

They've turned right at about 50 m distance.

They're getting into formation in the field.

The other 120 or so are facing off with the women.

Plus the 100 odd assembling in the field.

They're taking position in front of the women's brigade.

Doesn't look like they'll try to flank us this time.

All indications are for a frontal attack.

The women are holding their ground.

Roger. Take care. We're just about ready here.

Good.

Our men are now facing off against

the massed riot police and Corporation workers.

Our vehicle is bumper to bumper with their commander.

The women are behind us!

There are 100 riot cops directly behind their car!

Roger. We've spotted a troop of them heading up.

past here towards Yamamuro.

They're going straight.

Which direction was that?

Parallel to us and heading for Yamamuro.

Roger. Please confirm they're headed for Yamamuro.

They're approaching us off to one side of our barricade.

Roger. You be careful.

Remove that barricade!

Blocking traffic is a felony!

We must win this battle.

We must beat those who brought the airport here.

It's sure to get worse.

But an airport here would be permanent hell.

We cannot lose this battle.

I was too young for World War II,

but I can see myself fighting invading foreigners.

But our fellow Japanese?

These riot police have families.

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But now they're taught to kill citizens.

I really hate those who are giving the orders.

Like everyone else, these riot police have mothers.

I'm sure they didn't teach them to kill farmers.

All mothers raise their kids with love and care,

hoping they'll make something of themselves.

Now their children work for the government.

A government that teaches them to attack their own people.

I pity their poor suffering mothers.

How sad they must be.

I'd like to talk to these young policemen.

The comradeship is very satisfying!

I really like that feeling.

I really enjoy talking with my good friends.

and the farmers' wives who are fighting together.

It's the first time in all my years to have such a feeling.

I really admire my son,

for leading this battle against authority.

I tell all my friends how proud I am of him.

And they all agree.

Before the troubles he was a boy reading comics.

But this has turned him into a man.

We have to answer violence with violence.

Because our very lives are at stake.

We have to be armed.

They carry arms, and so must we.

They say that they have the law on their side,

but their consciences should tell them different.

Everything they do to us is supposedly "lawful".

Behind that shield of the law, they can be very bad and mean.

I really worry about the future of this country.

We must continue our fight.

I've been in battle so many times, now.

Every time I've been mortified.

I'm sure everyone else feels exactly the same.

All our family is fighting, so we can't work the fields.

Financially this has been a real disaster for us.

And it's very hard for us at the moment.

But we did get over WWII, so we can overcome anything.

All I want is to protect our children's future.

I'll fight till the end if I have to.

But not alone. We need each other.

We must never break the bonds that unite us.

We must be strong and try not to run away.

I've never experienced this kind of feeling.

It's given us a wisdom we never had before.

We've had to study about politics and all,

and analyze things in the deeper sense.

Like how can we make a better world.

Once I was like those who caved in.

I thought we'd have no effect on the world at large.

Now I know what's right and what's wrong.

And we musn't give in to those who are wrong.

In that sense I'm more complete than

those who have abandoned... the battle.

SUMMER IN SANRIZUKA