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Security Treaty
An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage, archival footage, and impassioned narration to create an expressive, visceral criticism of the US-Japan Security Treaty.
June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty
This film documents the surging mass movement against ratification of the new U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in June of 1960. The National Diet Building is surrounded for days by demonstrators shouting, “Down with Kishi!” (then Prime Minister) and “Dissolve the Diet!” Workers also strike in protest of the treaty. Fierce clashing between rio..
