Yama—Attack to Attack

1985 Japanese film

Yama—Attack to Attack

Directed by| Mitsuo Sato, Kyoichi Yamaoka

Release date

* 1985 (1985)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Yama—Attack to Attack (山谷─やられたらやりかえせ, Yama—Yararetara Yarikaese) is a 1985 color documentary film produced about day laborers in Japan. The two directors were murdered by the yakuza.[1]

## Documentary

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Current-day laborers union call for a demonstration, in San'ya

Most of the documentary shows the living and hiring conditions of day laborers in San'ya, a neighbourhood of Tokyo. It also includes protests, confrontation with yakuza, and celebrations.

The last part shows the situation of day laborers in other Japanese cities (Kotobuki-cho in Yokohama, Sasajima in Nagoya, Kamagasaki in Osaka, Chikko in Hakata) and the history of a former day labour area where many Korean workers lived.

## Making

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Mitsuo Sato spent a few weeks in San'ya before starting to record in December 1984. Day laborers just happened to have a confrontation with yakuza who wanted to control the labour market, so Sato recorded both sides of the events. On December 22 of the same year, Sato was murdered by a member of the yakuza group and right-wing organization Kokusui-kai Kanamachi-ikka Nishido-gumi (国粋会金町一家西戸組).[2]

After the murder of Sato, Kyoichi Yamaoka took over and the documentary was completed in November 1985, then premièred a month later.

Yamaoka in turn was murdered by a member of the Kokusui-kai-kei Kanamachi-ikka Kinryu-gumi (国粋会系金町一家金竜組) on January 13, 1986.

## Screenings

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The film has been the focus of a "screening movement" to present the film in Japan and abroad.[3] Among other places, it has been screened at the 1997 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival,[4] as well as in New York[5] and Kraków.[6] The film is not available on DVD (except for backup purposes) or commercialized in any format, the only way to watch it is to attend a screening.

Yamaoka's notes and essays were published as a book in 1996.[7]

## References

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1. ^ Kohso, Sabu (2006). "Angelus Novus in Millennial Japan". In Tomiko Yoda, Harry D. Harootunian (ed.). Japan after Japan: social and cultural life from the recessionary 1990s to the present. Asia-Pacific: culture, politics, and society. Duke University Press. pp. 423–424\. ISBN 0-8223-3813-0. Retrieved 2015-08-11.423-424&rft.pub=Duke+University+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-8223-3813-0&rft.aulast=Kohso&rft.aufirst=Sabu&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3AUhtsF-UoC&pg;=PA423&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Yama—Attack+to+Attack" class="Z3988">
2. ^ "「山谷」制作上映委員会". 8 April 2015.
3. ^ Kohso, Sabu. "Ciné-activism in an Archipelagic World". Bordersphere. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
4. ^ "YAMA--Attack to Attack". Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
5. ^ Sakai, Takafumi (2005). "Nyū Yōku ni okeru Yama—Yararetara yarikaese". Impaction (145): 78–83.78-83&rft.date=2005&rft.aulast=Sakai&rft.aufirst=Takafumi&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Yama—Attack+to+Attack" class="Z3988">
6. ^ http://wiedzaiwladza.pl/yama-yararetara-yarikaese/ [dead link‍]
7. ^ Yamaoka, Kyōichi (1996). Yama, yararetara yarikaese (Shohan. ed.). Tōkyō: Gendai Kikakushitsu. ISBN 4773895179. OCLC 35104958.

## External links

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* Yama: Attack to Attack with English subtitles at rarefilmm.com
* YAMA-ATTACK TO ATTACK- projection association
* English scene-by-scene summary of the film

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Critique of work

Historical persons|

* Abbie Hoffman
* Edward Bellamy
* Alfredo M. Bonanno
* André Gorz
* Bob Black
* Günther Anders
* Guy Debord
* Heinrich Böll
* Ivan Illich
* Mikhail Bakunin
* Paul Lafargue
* Walter Benjamin
* Antonio Negri
* Bertrand Russell
* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Henry David Thoreau
* Herbert Marcuse
* Jerry Rubin
* Josef Pieper
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* Max Stirner
* Max Weber
* Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
* Raoul Vaneigem
* Renzo Novatore
* Zo d'Axa

Contemporary persons|

* Franco Berardi
* L. Susan Brown
* Madeleine Bunting
* David Graeber
* Michael Hardt
* Maurizio Lazzarato
* Claus Peter Ortlieb
* Roland Paulsen
* Jeremy Rifkin
* Penelope Rosemont
* Mark Slouka
* Nick Srnicek
* Claire Wolfe
* John Zerzan

Terminology and related topics|

* 996 working hour system
* Absenteeism
* Abusive supervision
* Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich
* All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
* Autonomism
* Bare minimum Monday
* Bullshit job
* Career catfishing
* Coffee badging
* Corporatocracy
* Conscious quitting
* Cycle of poverty
* Dolce far niente
* Effects of overtime
* Eight-hour day
* Employee ghosting
* Extermination through labour
* Career cushioning
* Careerism
* Flextime
* Forced labour
* Four-day workweek
* Funemployment
* Ghost job
* Uberisation / Gig worker
* Glass cliff
* Happiness economics
* Honeymoon-hangover effect
* Hush trip
* Job crafting
* Job cuffing
* Jobless employed
* Karoshi
* Loud quitting
* Neijuan
* Occupational burnout
* Occupational safety and health
* Occupational stress
* Orange S.A. suicides
* Overwork
* Performance punishment
* Post-work society
* Precariat
* Presenteeism
* Digital presenteeism
* Productivity theater
* Professional abuse
* Protestant work ethic
* Psychological safety
* Quick quitting
* Quiet hiring
* Quiet promotion
* Quiet quitting
* Quiet thriving
* Lazy girl job
* Rage applying
* Refusal of work
* Resenteeism
* Right to rest and leisure
* Sampo generation
* Sunday scaries
* Six-hour day
* Tang ping
* Technological unemployment
* Toxic workplace
* Narcissism
* Psychopathy
* Wage slavery
* Work ethic
* Workaholic
* Working poor
* Work–life interface

Theater, movies, music and art|

* À Nous la Liberté
* Office Space
* Swedish Public Freedom Service
* "Take This Job and Shove It"
* The Future of Work and Death
* The Main Thing Is Work!
* The Working Class Goes to Heaven
* Yama—Attack to Attack

Literature|

* Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral
* Bartleby, the Scrivener
* Bonjour paresse
* Bullshit Jobs
* The Conquest of Bread
* Critique of Economic Reason
* Fight Club
* Future Primitive and Other Essays
* In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
* Inventing the Future
* Manifesto Against Work
* New Escapologist
* On the Poverty of Student Life
* The Society of the Spectacle
* Steal This Book
* The Abolition of Work
* The End of Work
* The Human Use of Human Beings
* The Idler
* The Revolution of Everyday Life
* The Right to Be Lazy
* The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy

Communities|

* R/antiwork
* CrimethInc.
* Situationist International

See also|

* Criticism of capitalism
* Critique of political economy
* Job strain

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