Gekieiga Okinawa

[Machine Translation] The days of endurance and sorrow are over. The soul of a people is shaken with a fierceness similar to the rumbling of the sea! Fifty years after its initial release... Set in postwar Okinawa before it was returned to Japan, this legendary feature film depicting the anguish, anger, and passionate struggle of the people and workers who were deprived of their homeland is finally available on DVD for the first time! ( Part 1: Not a single tsubo of land shall be given away ) Okinawa, 1945: Saburo Shimabukuro, who lost his land to the U.S., is rummaging for U.S. military supplies in the area around the base. Stealing Uchinanchu's goods is stealing, but stealing Americana's goods is war achievement! ' This was Saburo's philosophy of life. During the rapid expansion of the U.S. military base, Tomoko Tamanaha's grandmother was shot dead by a fighter plane's machine gun. Local farmers formed a protest line against the U.S. military, which did not provide any compensation. Soon after, the farmers' struggle spread to the entire Okinawa region. (Ten years later, the U.S. entered the Vietnam War and launched B-52 bombers from bases in Okinawa. As the war intensified, the working conditions for the base workers became even harsher. Their anger develops into a strike struggle, but the U.S. tries every possible means to crush the strike. As arrests and dismissals continue, Tomoko's younger brother Wataru is hit by an American military truck and dies instantly. Wataru's teacher denounces the "lies of American democracy" in a military court, but the verdict is... Scaled-down re-edited pamphlet enclosed.

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忍従と悲しみの日々は終わった 民族の魂を海鳴りにも似た烈しさでゆさぶる! 初公開から50年・・・戦後、日本へ返還される前の沖縄を舞台に、故郷を奪われた人と労働者たちの苦悩と怒り、熱い闘いを描いた伝説の長編映画が遂に初DVD化! 〈第一部 一坪たりともわたすまい〉昭和三十年、沖縄― アメリカに土地を奪われた島袋三郎は基地周辺の米軍物資を物色している。「ウチナンチュの物を盗めば泥棒だがアメリカーナのものを盗むのは戦果だ!」これが三郎の生活哲学だった。急ピッチで進む米軍の基地拡張の中、玉那覇朋子の祖母が戦闘機の機関銃に撃たれて死んだ。何の補償も与えない米軍に対し、抗議の列を作り進む地元の農民たち。それから間もなく農民たちの闘いは全沖縄の闘いへと拡がっていった。〈第二部 怒りの島〉十年後、ベトナム戦争へ突入していたアメリカは沖縄基地からB52爆撃機を出撃させている。戦争の激化にともない基地労働者の労働環境もより過酷なものとなっていく。彼らの怒りはストライキ闘争へと発展していくが、アメリカはあらゆる手を使いストを潰そうとする。逮捕者、解雇者が続く中、朋子の弟の亘が米軍トラックに轢かれて即死する。亘の教師は軍事法廷で「アメリカ民主主義のウソ」を糾弾したが、判決は・・・。縮尺再編集版パンフレット封入。