[三里冢]是日本纪录片大师小川绅介，记录三里冢地区的农地被政府征收去兴建成田机场时，农民与政府抗争的经过。在日本，纪录片拍摄者基本上都站在反抗权力的立场，甚至纪录片本身就是一种反抗的形式。小川绅介导演生前最后的谈话是这样的：“我不承认‘国家’这个名词，‘国家’这个名词是可以不要的。”
1967年三里冢地区开始要兴建机场，当地村民为了保护自己的土地而与警察抗争，抵抗坚持了五年一直到1972年，这五年期间小川绅介带着剧组成员一直住在村里，他坚持“尽可能呆在现场”，通过时间的流变来展现示威斗争中真实动人的一面，当几年来一直抗争的农妇用铁链将自己和孩子锁在一起，面对警察面露坚毅之色时，它所表现出的震撼力量无法用语言描述，因此[三里冢]被称为“达到了古典武士戏剧的水平”。

In 1981 film director Nagisa Oshima - the 'New Wave' Japanese director best known in this country for films such as Cruel Story of Youth (1960), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) - traveled to the Yamagata countryside to visit the documentary filmmaking collective led by Shinsuke Ogawa (1935-1992), who was then in the midst of filming A Japanese Village - Furuyashikimura, a feature-length documentary chronicling the seasonal cycle of rice growing.
Ogawa, who produced Summer in Narita (1968), Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971), and Red Persimmons (2004), gives Oshima a brief tour of their rural location, including the rice fields they are cultivating as well as filming, and introductions to local villagers. They then settle down for a wide-ranging conversation about Ogawa Productions' approach to documentary filmmaking - that of self-styled "film nomads" who live and work for extended periods of time in various regions of the country-focusing in particular on their current production, which involves an intimate interaction over a period of several years with local farmers, weather conditions, the environment, and aspects of village life.
A VISIT TO OGAWA PRODUCTIONS thus offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives. As the film reveals, Ogawa Productions' in-depth portraits of Japanese society - whether of protest movements or traditional agricultural life - grew out of an unusual commitment to integrate themselves with the communities they filmed, to the extent that their filmmaking literally became an alternative lifestyle.

1989年秋、第一回山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭に世界各地の映画人が集まった。映画祭の顔として駆け回る小川紳介。一方アジアの作家たちは、タヒミック起草の「映画宣言」を採択して意気あがる。