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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.

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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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