imoomi.blogspot.com - United Red Army is a movie directed by Koji Wakamatsu and starring Go Jibiki, Akie Namiki, Maki Sakai, Arata, Shima Ohnishi. Genre of this film is a Documentary. The film tells the story of docudrama explores the political unrest of 1960s Japan, Pls mass student uprisings coincided with the Beginnings of the far-left group United Red Army, the which Tortured and Murdered its "Deviant" members During a 1972 training session.
In 1972, two extreme-left factions combined forces changed from the United Red Army (URA) and established a military training base in Japan's Southern Alps. In this second section, the pic dispenses with archival footage and takes place Almost entirely inside the Radicals' alpine Shed.
The dogmatic Tsuneo Mori (Go Jibiki) Barks at his charges about Their inadequacy as communists, while his second-in-command, Hiroko Nagata (Akie Namiki) sees political imperfection everywhere and quashes it mercilessly. Paranoia swiftly takes hold as Nagata and Mori harass all members to enact ongoing rites of ideological purification called "self-criticism."
Nagata's chief target is the idealistic Mieko Toyama (Maki Sakai), Who is repeatedly scapegoated for her feminine naivete. Abuse escalates from the verbal to the physical, in a grueling perversion of the Ideals That Originally motivated the youth movement. Helmer occasionally punctuates these intense scenes with exterior shots of EXQUISITE mountains as a counterpoint to the rank behavior inside.
Final seg shows a quintet of URA activists in an ill-fated siege of a mountainside hotel. After the tough middle seg, this gun-blazing finale Almost comes as a relief. Narrative depicts the group in its death throes, its members ready to turn on EACH other, but an explosive Coda reveals the URA was more Than just a bunch of raggedy-ass Renegades. Tightly compressed epilogue documents the full extent of the group's international terrorist activities, driving home potent themes and Contempo relevance.
By film's end, auds will from be exhausted by the combination of documentary-style presentation and exacting drama. But even though two-thirds of the pic takes place in only two locations, Wakamatsu still manages, through sheer directing Smarts, to Prevent the wordy opus from Becoming a bore.
Performances are solid Throughout. Sharpest turns are provided by Sakai, as the bullied femme, and Namiki, chilling as a Mean-Spirited torturer.
Except for the brief Glimpses of Japan's alpine wilderness, HD-originated lensing is not at all spectacular, with drab colors mimicking the initial archival footage and later poetically reflecting the decay of the group's idealism. Soundtrack by Sonic Youth's Jim O'Rourke keeps pic moving with the hard-rocking guitar and Some jazzy, more understated moments. Other credits are Also deceptively low-key but expertly applied.
Released Date: May 27, 2011Watch Movie Trailer
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