Damaged road blocks, women chained themselves to trees in order to resist, faint candle lightened up those unswerving faces in the underground tunnels dugged by farmers....... Sanrizuka IV, the core of the series works, won Steinberg award on the Germany Mannheim Film Festival .
“We are unable to forget the friendship with the peasants of Sanrizuka during the past three years, back to February 22, 1971, we fought shoulder to shoulder. Not likely to other media, in this film, we promote a sense of substantialness and symbiosis in the battle, also the enthusiastic thoughts of the peasants. Optimism, persistence and the extremely delicate sensitivity, sometimes laugh in front of the brigade, sometimes also shed tears of hurt. This is a world which is beyond success or failure, only those who stick to it can understand. A world which is totally different from "spoilers" lands, is unfolded in front of us lively." (From Ogawa Shinsuke’s Harvesting Films)
