United Red Army

Synopsis

The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.

Main Cast

Maki Sakai

Mieko Toyama

Age : 53 | Popularity : 8%

Arata Iura

Hiroshi Sakaguchi

Age : 49 | Popularity : 7%

Akie Namiki

Hiroko Nagata

Age : 45 | Popularity : 3%

Go Jibiki

Tsuneo Mori

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Shima Onishi

Kunio Bando

Age : 48 | Popularity : 4%

Keigo Kasuya

Age : 47 | Popularity : 5%

Akiko Monô

Age : 48 | Popularity : 10%

Yuki Fujii

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Kōji Wakamatsu
Editing	Editor	Kōji Wakamatsu
Production	Executive Producer	Kōji Wakamatsu
	Producer	Noriko Ozaki
Writing	Writer	Kōji Wakamatsu Masayuki Kakegawa
Sound	Original Music Composer	Jim O'Rourke
Camera	Director of Photography	Tomohiko Tsuji Yoshihisa Toda
Department	Role	Name

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