Yama – Attack to Attack

Name: Yama – Attack to Attack
Released: 1985-01-25
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Motoharu Jônouchi

19851h 50mmovie

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the 19th century where day laborers lived in terrible conditions while they sought work.