United Red Army
実録・連合赤軍 あさま山荘への道程 (original)
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.
Starring Maki Sakai, Arata Iura, Akie Namiki, Go Jibiki, Shima Onishi, Keigo Kasuya, Akiko Monô, Yuki Fujii
Watch "United Red Army" from streaming services Kanopy, Amazon released in 2007. It's a drama and mystery movie, and has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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