Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 190 minutes
"A riveting must-see item!" -- Russell Edwards, Variety
Year of production : 2008 Director(s) : Koji WAKAMATSU Writer(s) : Koji WAKAMATSU, Masayuki KAKEGAWA, Asako OTOMO Cast : Maki SAKAI, Akie NAMIKI, Go JIBIKI Producer(s) : Koji WAKAMATSU (Wakamatsu Production, Inc.)
In a stark depiction of the dissatisfaction that followed the demise of 60's idealism, UNITED RED ARMY follows the story of the titular leftwing Japanese terrorist group that came together in Japanese maverick Koji Wakamatsu tells the story of the United Red Army faction which had its roots in the 60’s when Japanese students protested America using Japan as a staging base for its war in Vietnam. The radicalized students formed various political groups dedicated to ending the war and fighting the class struggle that split, splintered, polarized, balkanized and, ultimately, self-destructed. In 1972, 14 members of the United Red Army faction lynched each other during group "self-criticism" sessions while training in the mountains and the survivors holed up at the Asama Sanso Mountain Lodge, which quickly degenerated into a nine-day stand-off with the police that is one of the pivotal moments in Japanese history, as famous in Japan as Patty Hearst being kidnapped by the SLA or Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination is in America. --NYAFF '08
Country(ies) : JAPAN
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