United Red Army (2007) on Netflix
Two radical student factions merge into the United Red Army. Hiroko Nagata and Tsuneo Mori take its members into the southern Japanese Alps for training camps.
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Plot summary
Archive footage and a narrator lay out the history of Japan's student movement in the 1960s and early 1970s. The account then follows the founding of the United Red Army, a leftist paramilitary group formed when two of the most radical student factions merge, and the training camps its members hold in the mountains of the southern Japanese Alps. Hiroko Nagata and Tsuneo Mori, the group's leaders, run those camps, and there its ideology gives way to despotism as the two of them begin to persecute their own followers, bullying and arbitrarily punishing the members who have gathered around them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about United Red Army (2007)
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- To fund United Red Army, director Kōji Wakamatsu mortgaged his own home — the same house he later destroyed on camera in the film — and distributed the finished film himself rather than through a distributor.
- On the set of United Red Army, director Kōji Wakamatsu banned the actors' agents and managers during filming and required the cast to arrive already in costume and without any make-up.
