The Red Army
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- Movie: The Red Army / United Red Army
- Romaji: Jitsuroku Rengosekigun
- Japanese: 実録・連合赤軍 あさま山荘への道程(みち)
- Director: Koji Wakamatsu
- Writer: Koji Wakamatsu, Masayuki Kakegawa
- Producer: Asako Otomo, Muneko Ozaki, Koji Wakamatsu
- Cinematographer: Yoshihisa Toda, Tomohiko Tsuji
- Release Date: October 22, 2007 (TIFF), March 8, 2008 (Japan)
- Runtime: 190 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Anti-authority struggles led by students of the New Left gradually petered out after its peak at the end of the 1960s. A small number of radical fighters raided a police box and a gun shop to obtain firearms and formed the United Red Army in order to achieve ‘revolution’ by force. While the group moved around in snow-covered mountains to escape the authorities, beatings took place frequently of those who were deemed lacking the conscience and determination to become revolutionary fighters, which even led to some deaths. Five members are backed into a corner and barricade themselves in the Asama lodge in Nagano prefecture, and plunge into a gun battle with police and riot police.
Notes
- Other movies based on the same 1972 incident include (2001) Banmei Takahashi's Rain of Light and (2002) Masato Harada's The Choice of Hercules.
Cast
- Maria Abe
- Arata - Hiroshi Sakaguchi
- Anri Ban - Fusako Shigenobu
- Kenji Date
- Yuki Fujii
- Len Hisa
- Shoichi Honda
- Megumi Ichinose
- Go Jibiki - Tsuneo Mori
- Keigo Kasuya
- Junpei Kawa
- Etsuko Kizen
- Chie Kozu
- Genji Kuroi
- Sentaro Kusakabe
- Makoto Miyahara
- Akiko Monou
- Hideo Nakaizumi - Yasuhiro Uegaki
- Akie Namiki - Hiroko Nagata
- Nao Okabe
- Erika Okuda
- Kaoru Okunuki - Hostage - Yasuko Muta
- Nobumitsu Onishi
- Shima Onishi
- Tak Sakaguchi
- Maki Sakai - Mieko Tohyama
- Shiro Sano
- Yugo Saso - Koichi Teraoka
- Yasuko Tajima
- Hassei Takano
- Nobuya Tamaichi
- Soran Tamoto
- Kazuki Tsujimoto
- Takaki Uda
- Naoki Yamamoto
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Film Festivals
- 2008 (8th) Nippon Connection - April 2nd-6th
- 2008 (7th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 20th-July 6th - * North American Premiere
- 2010 (12th) Mumbai Film Festival - October 21-28, 2010 - Celebration of Japanese Cinema
- 2011 (25th) Fribourg International Film Festival - March 19-26, 2011 - Panorama: Being a Terrorist
Awards
- Outstanding Achievement - 2008 (7th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 20th-July 6th
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