190 minutos
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.
Maki Sakai
Mieko Toyama
Arata Iura
Hiroshi Sakaguchi
Akie Namiki
Hiroko Nagata
Go Jibiki
Tsuneo Mori
Shima Onishi
Kunio Bando
Keigo Kasuya
Akiko Monou
Yuki Fujii
Kaoru Okunuki
Tak Sakaguchi
Yugo Saso
Hideo Nakaizumi
Maria Abe
Tomori Abe
Anri Ban
Yoshio Harada
Erika Okuda
Nao Okabe
Kenji Date
Megumi Ichinose
Shinji Miyadai
Hassei Takano
Nobuya Tamaichi
Soran Tamoto
Kazuki Tsujimoto
Takaki Uda
Naoki Yamamoto
