United Red Army – win free passes to the film at Festival Nouveau Cinema

Hey Indyish! Want to see a disturbing, world-renowned film at the Festival Nouveau Cinema?

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The film is called United Red Army, here’s the details:

United Red Army, 15 OCTOBER @ the Imperial, 18h00.

Like so many places in the 60s, Japan’s campuses were the site of an increasing number of aggressive confrontations between the authorities and a politicized student population. It was that heated setting that incubated the United Red Army, an extreme left-wing faction that set itself against the prevailing power structure and its tacit acceptance of encroaching U.S. foreign policy. To prepare for armed struggle, twenty-nine militants holed up in the mountains. There, away from prying eyes, one of the bloodiest events in modern Japanese history took place.

Director Koji Wakamatsu, a radical and prolific filmmaker (100 so far), and master of controversy (still banned from entering the U.S.), recounts the details of the hostagetaking events at Asama-Sansô Mountain Lodge (February 72) where fourteen students were brutally killed. United Red Army begins as a history lesson, filled with archival images in its first “act”, before it ambushes unsuspecting viewers, leaving them no alternative but to be swept up in a deep and troubling malaise. A fiercely compelling work, winner of multiple awards in Berlin and Tokyo, that is also a full and timely meditation on violence at the service of political subversion.