Kazuo Kitai's Sanrizuka documents the intense civil unrest between the residents of Sanrizuka, an agricultural area located on the east side of Narita Airport, and government authorities in the run-up to the airport's construction and subsequent expansion. According to a 1966 plan, the airport would have been completed by 1971, but due to ongoing resettlement disputes, not all the land for the airport was available by then. Finally, in 1971, the Japanese government began forcibly expropriating land. 291 protesters were arrested, and more than 1,000 police officers, villagers, and student activists were injured in a series of riots.