Overview
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Director and cast
- Nagisa Ōshima Director
- Miyuki Kuwano as Reiko Harada
- Fumio Watanabe as Haruaki Nozawa
- Masahiko Tsugawa as Ôta
- Hiroshi Akutagawa as Prof. Udagawa
- Kei Satō as Sakamaki
- Rokkō Toura as Higashiura Toura
- Akiko Koyama as Misako Nakagawa
- Shinko Ujiie as Mrs. Udagawa
- Ichirô Hayami as Takumi
- Takao Yoshizawa as Katsuhiko Nakayama
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