United Red Army

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Akie Namiki
as Hiroko Nagata

Arata Iura
as Hiroshi Sakaguchi

Maki Sakai
as Mieko Toyama

Anri Ban
as Fusako Shigenobu

Go Jibiki
as Tsuneo Mori

Takaki Uda

Soran Tamoto

Tak Sakaguchi
as Shiomi Takaya

Hideo Nakaizumi
as Yasuhiro Uegaki

Shima Onishi

Kaoru Okunuki
as Yasuko Muta

Shiro Sano

Maria Abe

Kenji Date

Yuki Fujii

Yoshio Harada

Len Hisa

Megumi Ichinose

Keigo Kasuya

Junpei Kawa

Etsuko Kizen

Chie Kôzu

Genji Kuroi

Sentaro Kusakabe

Makoto Miyahara

Akiko Monou

Nao Okabe

Erica Okuda

Erika Okuda

Nobumitsu Ônishi

Yugo Saso
as Koichi Teraoka

Yasuko Tajima

Hassei Takano

Nobuya Tamaichi

Kazuki Tsujimoto

Naoki Yamamoto

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• Jan 14, 2013

  Just to show that Quentin Tarantino is not the only director who explores history while rifling through multiple genres in epic fashion, along comes "United Red Army" which sticks closer to stated fact whenever possible because sometimes fact is stranger than any fiction.(Like Nixon going to China.) So much so, that this movie resembles a documentary for its first part with occasional pauses to introduce us to various persons of interest. Even then, it is kind of hard to keep track of everybody which becomes important later, and not just because there will be a quiz. The focus is on the protests in Japan against treaties with the United States that threaten to turn the country into one big aircraft carrier. As the police presence hardens, the protesters become increasingly more confrontational and militant, eventually imagining themselves an army, seeking guns by the end of 1972. The second part has all the ingredients of a horror movie including an isolated cabin in the woods, lots of young people(mostly in their 20's), sharp pointy things and a body count. At this point, all of the factions of the red army have united into a unified whole which should be the zenith of the movement, but instead proves to be its undoing. Military training metastasizes into a microcosm of the cultural revolution then happening in China, thus rendering a promising force inert. Even worse is that Nagata(Akie Namiki) and Mori(Go Jibiki) use the whole process of Maoist self-critique to settle old scores.(Ironically, Mori had deserted the movement under fire previously but was let back in when most of the leadership had been arrested.) Afterwards, political debates extend to what kind of cookies are anti-revolutionary.(For me, it's mint cookies.) In any case, the most revolutionary behavior should involve kindness, not cruelty. Even then, this is not the end of the Japanese Red Army, as the endnote lists a group of future actions, including one that was dramatized in "Carlos."
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