"United Red Army" by Koji Wakamatsu

Film Wakamatsu about extremist Japanese RAF (Red Army Faction), crazy and beautiful.
Koji Wakamatsu, Japan’s most controversial filmmaker, brilliantly reconstructs the most troubling episode in the bloody history of Japanese student-radical extremism through the true 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.
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 ten-day stand-off with the police that is one of the pivotal moments in Japanese history, as famous in Japan as Martin Luther King’s assassination is in America.
Wakamatsu’s film is an earnest attempt to process the shock that the Japanese Left was experiencing at the time and to grasp the motivation of the militant students.
A gut-wrenching docudrama underlaid with electrifying psychedelic rock music by Sonic Youth founder member Jim O’Rourke.
"The basis of the organization were student leaders, but because of some university intellectuals partisan group could not create, and the organization were involved in the young hooligans, the proletarians of the radical left rockers gang« black helmets ». These Japanese« Hell's Angels »rode on their bikes for the wealthy suburb of Tokyo and bourgeoisie threw bottles at the windows with Molotov cocktails, or caught in a doorway rich Vitelloni and blowing his iron chains. chreditelnaya conference «Sekigunha» took place on September 4, 1969 The new organization took on a sample of the revolutionary guerrilla army, acting in his time in Russia, Cuba and China. The aim was proclaimed the world revolution, which would implement a single Red Army Peoples of Africa, Latin America, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. The Revolution, which begins in the Third World, and then cover the entire planet … The next task in the Declaration adopted at the congress «Call to War» were listed as follows: «We have to blow up the Pentagon, the General Police Directorate and the Office for National Defense of Japan. We must sweep away the bourgeoisie from the face of the Earth». "

Year: 2007
Country: Japan
Genre: drama, biography, chronicle
Running time: 190 minutes
Translation: Subtitles
Russian subtitles: yes
English subtitles: yes
Director: Koji Wakamatsu