Original subtitles

A Wakamatsu Production

Skole Corporation

The events depicted in this film are all true

but some fiction has been incorporated

UNITED RED ARMY

THE PATH TO ASAMA MOUNTAIN LODGE

1972 : Once, armed youth cried out for revolution

On June 15, 1960,

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party

used police forces to expel any opposition

forcing through a Security Treaty with the US,

Then Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi

quit one month later.

The demonstration against the treaty

surrounded the Diet on this day too.

At 7 pm Michiko Kamba died

in the demonstration.

She was a 22 year old college student.

After failing to stop the 1960 Security Treaty,

the core of the Japanese student movement

split from the Communist and Socialist parties.

May 1966,

Mao Zedong struggled for power in China's Communist Party.

The Cultural Revolution began.

Students played a central role.

In Japan in July,

the government decided to build an airport at Sanrizuka in Chiba prefecture,

ordering people to surrender their land.

Protests erupted at universities across the nation.

This university is no longer a place for education.

It is only run as a business.

To the administration, we aren't learners.

We're just sources of profit.

Tuition wasn't supposed to rise before graduation.

What should people do who can't pay it?

They're trying to take away our right to learn...

Victory is ours! Down with fee increases!

The struggle to prevent fee increases ended in failure.

Some student leaders had met secretly with the administration

and accepted the increase.

But struggles at universities across the nation revived a political group...

The Communist League or Bund that had played a key role

in the 1960 Security Treaty protest.

The Bund joined up with two other student organizations

and formed the so-called 3 Sect All-Student Alliance.

Through 1968, the student movement developed...

During the day I work at Kirin Beer

My mom says to go to school during the day.

But I saw how she suffered when my dad died and I don't want to burden her.

I may not be so active in the movement.

Actually, I used to work at Kikkoman!

Fall, 1967 : From Okinawa, constant American bombing raids of Vietnam.

In October : Prime Minister Sato visited South Vietnam to offer aid.

October 8, students opposing Sato's trip

clashed with riot police.

One student died,

making the students more militant.

Nov 67 : Struggle to prevent Sato's US visit

Jan 68 : Struggle to prevent US nuclear aircraft carrier from docking

Apr 68 : US Civil rights leader Martin Luther King assassinated

May 68 : Protests begin in France

Apr 68 : Tax bureau announces 200 million yen missing from Nihon University

May : First protest at Nihon University A Joint Struggle Committee forms

June : The Committee blockades the Economics dept.

With its economy reaching a high-growth peak

Japan became the strongest economic power behind America.

But struggles between students and administrators

that erupted some years earlier spread to many campuses across Japan.

112 universities are engulfed in struggles by 1969.

Within these,

Listen up!

Along with the Vietnam War,

the Revolution in China destroyed ruling powers.

Anti-war and civil rights movements in the US have pushed Johnson out.

Global liberation from capitalism has begun.

The world is shifting toward revolution.

Simultaneous struggles in each country are creating world revolution.

The revolutionary war develops through defense, confrontation,

and offense.

The Vietnam War is the stage of confrontation.

The proletariat will lead the offensive

by the bourgeois.

This is our revolutionary mission.

10/21 : Shinjuku Riot Incident.

October 21, 1968,

on International Anti-War Day, students and citizens confronted police in Shinjuku

trying to prevent the fueling of American Jets at Yokota airforce base.

Students occupied Shinjuku station to block the transport fuel.

Police invoked the Anti-Riot law,

a law to stifle rebellion.

734 arrests

July 1968 : Yasuda Hall is occupied and barricaded

Early morning, January 18, 1969,

8500 riot police entered Tokyo University campus

to remove the Joint Struggle Committee activists.

As a condition to hold entrance exams, the Education Ministry

ordered President Kato to break up the barricade.

Students erected another barricade around

the university area near Ochanomizu station.

This came to be called the "Kanda Liberation Zone".

The expulsion of occupying students carried over to the next day.

631 arrests

1969 : A bund meeting

Tokujo Saragi, age 40, Bund Chairman.

Sarafi, what is your self-critique

The campus movement was weakening.

Universities are no longer bases for mass movement.

Citizens and workers will have to take over the struggle

and carry it beyond the campus to create a broader movement.

That's not what I'm asking.

Didn't you tell Takahara's gang to get out of Yasuda when the cops came?

Had they done that, they would have been running away.

The only reason they didn't become laughing stocks

is because they didn't follow your directions.

Your judgment was wrong.

The occupation of Yasuda Hall was just militant propaganda.

I still believe this.

Reiji Matsumoto, age 40, Bund member

If you can't follow orders from the politburo,

how can you take responsibility?

If you're just carrying out more factional activities, you should quit the politburo.

That's not the issue.

What is your self-critique of the 10/21 action,

how are you going to face the 4/28 action?

These are the issues at hand.

The policy of the politburo is clear.

It is armed struggle as mass movement.

No, any rebellion not led but a vanguard is meaningless.

We haven't yet reached the revolutionary stage.

It's too soon for armed insurrection.

Don't go rushing it, Shiomi.

How can you say that and believe in revolution?

For 4/28, we're gonna hit 'em with all kinds of weapons.

We're staking our lives on it. You all aren't revolutionaries!

What did you say? Asshole!

April 28, 17 years ago, the San Francisco Peace Treaty was ratified.

With Okinawa falling under US occupation, it was called Okinawa Day.

Gatherings were called in Tokyo

for Okinawa return and repealing the Security Treaty.

Over 100.000 participated.

Students and some workers marched from Tokyo Station to Shinbashi

calling for occupation of the government office area.

But a thick wall if riot police blocked the way.

Opinions within the Bund split over the best response.

Shiomi's Kansai faction called for militancy.

956 arrests

The Law Against Destructive Activities was used

July 2, Saragi's faction began to probe

the dissolution of Shiomi's Kansai faction,

who had moved to form the RAF (Red Faction Army).

Tsuneo Mori, age 25, escaped the scene

July 6, 1969 : Meiji University

Where is your critique for 4/28?

Criticize yourself, dammit!

You wanna break us up? Just try!

Bastards!

Stop it! What the fuck are you doing?

Takahashi, take Saragi to the hospital.

Shigenobu, this isn't revolution.

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

They're here!

Saragi's group is here!

Takahashi!

I'm RAF (Red Faction Army) too. Take me!

Shigenobu, just stay here, please.

Amidst the barricades at Chuo University

Do you know what the hell you've done?

How much you've fucked up Saragi.

Saragi got arrested while he was out of it.

What is the Red Army's problem!

Fuck you! Criticize yourselves!

Go back to fucking Kansai!

Otherwise we'll put you in a concrete block and throw it in Tokyo Bay.

You asshole! Don't just fucking sit there, say something!

You won't be using a stave anymore!

July 24 : Chuo University

The Kanto Faction took Shiomi's Kansai Faction as hostages,

trying to break it up.

But the Kansai group was unfazed.

As the Kanto faction kept watch over Shiomi's faction.

They worried this could lead to police intervention.

But the Kansai faction accepted no conditions,

their dissolution was unjustified

and their existence became unmanageable.

I'm going down.

July 24, 1969 : Takafumi Mochizuki, age 22, falls.

Aug 1969 : An Emergency Law on University Management is forced through the Diet

In the new year's extension of the Security Treaty.

The ruling party passed the Law

for Extraordinary Measures on University Management.

The Ministry of Education suggests closing campuses engulfed in unrest

through police force.

Aug 28, 1969 : Jogashima, Kanagawa Prefecture

Declaration of war.

Listen up, Bourgeoisie!

We hereby proclaim that we will force

you to confront the revolution.

Takaya Shiomi, RAF Chairman

We will no longer be deceived.

If you have the right to kill

our friends in Vietnam

we have the right to kill you.

Hirotuki Takahara, 22, Politburo Member

If you have the right to kill our comrades the black panthers

we have the right to kill Nixon,

Sato, Kissinger, De Gaulle

Norio Hanazono, 23, Politburo Member

...and to bomb the Pentagon,

and your homes.

Takashi Yamada, 25, Central committee

We will continue according to your plans.

Fusako Shigenobu, 25, Central Committee

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

We hereby declare world revolutionary war.

Proletarians!

Let us triumph in world revolution!

Oct 21, 1969 : International Anti-War Day

1505 arrests

Nov 5 : Daibosatsu Pass, Yamanashi Prefecture

Dawn on November 5

In a mountain at the Daibosatsu Pass,

53 members of the RAD were arrested.

They disguised themselves as a university hiking club

and underwent military training at a nearby mountain.

The goal of the training was occupation of the Prime Minister's residence.

Less than 3 months after forming, the RAF was dealt a devastating blow.

53 arrests

November 17, the Prime Minister holds a meeting

to discuss extending the Security Treaty.

The struggle to block his visit widened. 2093 arrests were made.

2093 arrests

It's been a long time.

What's up?

I've been organizing workers at a sheeting factory.

You say that, but really

you've done nothing and you're stuck.

I hear you wanna come back. Are you serious?

The others got caught at Daibosatsu Pass.

Only me, Shiomi and Takahara are left.

Anyhow, we need people. As far as you running away in July,

criticize yourself properly and we'll let you start over as a soldier.

Next time, don't desert us.

I'll do my best.

Shiomi, you're under arrest for violation of the explosives law.

Mar 15 : RAF head Shiomi arrested

Takamaro Tamiya and 8 other RAF members

pulled off the first hijacking in Japan.

Their goal is to receive military training in North Korea

for an armed insurrection in the fall.

Fearful in the wake of the hijacking,

the police arrested anyone suspected of being a member of the RAF.

Over 200 are arrested.

The words "Red Army Crime" were born.

Takahara, you're under arrest for possession of weapons.

June 7 : RAF member Hiroyuki Takahara arrested

June 23, 1970 : 770.000 gathered to protest against the Security Treaty

The Japan-US Security Treaty was automatically extended.

After a 10 year period, either government could unilaterally dissolve it.

But neither America, using bases in Japan for military action in Asia

or Japan, supported economically through exports to the US has the will.

92 arrests

The Security Treaty, or Japan-US League, remains to this day.

Mieko, it's your fault that Takahara got caught.

It was a trap.

Cheer up.

You're so strong, Fusako.

But no me. I'm just a drag.

Everyone's disappeared. It's up to us.

We've got to do what we can.

It'll work out.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Welcome.

Long time no see.

Yeah, it's been awhile.

Thank you.

The RFL (Revolutionary Left Faction),

a splinter group calling for armed struggle sympathized

with the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Dec 18 : A Police Station in Itabashi, Tokyo

They attacked a police station to steal guns.

Their plan was to attack a court bus using the guns

Haruhiko Shibano, 24, RLF Shot to death

But it ended with the killing of the activists.

It was the first time since the war

that a left-wing activist was killed.

The RLF (Revolutionary Left Faction)

has carried on political guerrilla warfare

exposing American imperialism.

The reactionary rule

over the country through war.

Hiroshi Sakaguchi, 25, RLF

Therefore, attacks against the bases are

the starting point for guerrilla warfare.

Koichi Teraoka, 23, RLF

Last year's 11/21 US-Japan joint declaration

not only forces Japan to follow American anti-communism, anti-Chinese policies

but exposes the intent to resurrect

the East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere

Kunio Bando, 23, RAF

among Japanese reactionaries.

Our patriotic struggle against the US will expose the deplorable enemy.

It is the first step in true autonomy for the people

and the realization of revolution in Japan

through the heroic struggle

An Inn in Saitama Prefecture

of comrade Shibano,

we've embarked on a new people's collective.

The RAD has pursed "continual uprisings" and "international bases"

taking revolutionary war as the manifestation of global communism.

These power-seizing revolts take the form of immediate confrontation.

While the revolutionary war takes the form of enduring struggle,

a long-term struggle to crush the enemy and set up the revolutionary forces.

Victory in these continuous uprisings

will be marked by the global Red Army establishing

the front lines of world revolution.

In armed struggle, the party makes the army,

and the army makes the party.

We take on the legacy of comrade Shibano, massacred by the ruling powers.

Mori, if the RAF has guns, can you give some to us?

The RAF is under heavy pressure,

but you're seeing your faith share too, right?

It seems we're both being labeled "ultra extremists".

Tsuneo Umenai, 23, RAF

With the collapse of the politburo, we should advance the armed struggle

not as a single party, but as independent groups,

with pipe bombs and guerrilla warfare.

If the preliminary struggles this spring can gather a broad array of forces,

they can succeed.

It is also easier for factional elements

No, the armed struggle will be led from here by the central committee.

Loss of factionalism means the end of the RAF. Are you stupid?

You can't win a guerrilla war no matter how many bombs you build.

Guerrilla wars requires guns!

Political process isn't the same as making bombs.

Listen up!

More than the preliminary spring struggles,

we must now envision the militarization of the party.

So, I want to divide the party into

the "revolutionary front" the public face in charge of information

and the "central army" conducting military training.

Bando, Onishi, Mastuda. I want you 3 to organize a military unit.

Aoto...

Mikio Aoto, 21, RAF

you'll be the liaison between the revolutionary front

and the central army.

Shigenobu, please form a committee on international bases.

Most of the leaders who established the RAF were already arrested.

This led to Mori seizing power within the organization

though he had deserted just prior to the forming of the RAF

and was only recently readmitted.

Mori was the eldest member

with a direct relation to Tamiya who had hijacked the Yodogo plane

Telegram!

Mr. Tsukada, you have a telegram!

Telegram.

Masakuni Yoshino, 22, RLF

Seiji Segi, 20, RLF

Feb 17, 1971 : RLF attack the Tsukada Gun Shop in Mooka City

They acquire ten shotguns, a air gun, and 2000 rounds of ammo

Don't give up !

We reject the bourgeois system of private property

and advance the militarization

and politicization of the party by gaining revolutionary funding.

So, the forced appropriation of Sanrizuka starts

and prefectural cops will be concentrated there.

We have to take advantage of this gap.

Let's put Plan M to work!

No objection!

Feb 22 : Tatsumidai Post Office, Chibe prefecture

Teacher's 3.000.000 yen salary stolen

This isn't like you, Mieko.

Even if someone calls me Mrs. Okudaira, I don't feel like it's me yet.

But it was through Okudaira's family register that I could get a passport.

I decided to leave before getting sniffed out by security.

Take care.

See you around.

You take care too.

Feb 28 : International Red Army member Fusako Shigenobu departs for Lebanon

Late May : RLF's Kosode Base

We'll undertake guerrilla warfare here from now on

inheriting the spirit of our massacred revolutionary comrade

we'll take out all surveillance bases and police stations

Steal the cop's guns!

Using their guns in the fight

is the first step...

Yoshitaka Kato, 21, RLF

...towards a people's revolution

We'll fight with the RAF and carry out all-out war!

No objection !

Unified Red Army

July 15, 1971, the RAF and RLF join to form the Unified Red Army.

One month later, based on the opinion of RLF leader Kawashima,

the name is changed to United Red Army (URA).

United Red Army

Because of that anti-revolutionary Mukaiyama,

I'm afraid the enemy knows about this place.

We have to start looking for a new base right away.

Torayoshi Maezawa, 23 Kazuko Kojima, 22

Step on it!

Goddammit!

Who is it?

Hiroko Nagata.

Two people got away.

So, it will be dangerous to use the bases at Kosode or Enzan.

We're looking for other places now.

For revolution, each person must consider himself a revolutionary soldier.

They have to objectify themselves.

In fact, we're dealing with the same problem.

Why has our growth been so spontaneous and undirected?

RAF Safehouse

Because it itself exists around a tactical "sphere".

Jun Yamazaki, 20

The historical tradition in Japan

of anti-Stalinism and Trotskyism

stopped with the strategic goal

Ryuzaburo Shindo, 20

of the dictatorship of the Proletariat.

In other words, in order to achieve

Yasuhiro Uegaki, 22

truly global revolutionary warfare

a class war that simultaneously enacts socialism

As a result of plan M, they were the sole survivors of the Central Arm

and the toppling of imperialism,

domestically and internationally

reflect on global communism

only then can we begin to fight tendencies

toward unplanned spontaneity and empiricism.

How long will you guys be up?

I'll never get to sleep!

I can't stand living like this anymore!

Yoshiko, wait, calm down!

It's ok, take it easy.

Yoshiko, calm down!

Being a liaison is tough, but it is a vital job.

To achieve revolution, all of us have to take on intense duties.

That's how we've succeeded so far, right.

Let's do it together.

But once the all-out war begins, things are going to change.

There are sure to be challenges and heavy duties we'll have to face.

That's what revolution means.

So, if you want to go home or go some place, go ahead.

What do you want to do?

I want to be with Ruy.

With all these spies and deserters, we need to take serious measures.

Without pushing ourselves through such a process

all-out war will never get carried out.

Heard you all ran into some cops last time.

What did you tell them?

Nothing, really...

Go ahead, have a drink.

No, I'm okay.

Well, I think it's time for me to go.

Hey, Mukaiyama, you doing alright?

I've gotta meet someone, so let me go.

Hey, slow down.

It's a really important meeting.

With whom ?

The cops?

Stop, stop it!

Shiginori Mukaiyama, 21, executed

We took care of both of them.

Did you have them speak before you did it ?

If they don't admit to their crimes, then it's just a regular death.

If they don't reflect and criticize themselves,

It won't be a revolutionary death.

Yeah, you're right.

By the way, what happened with the RAF?

Yasuko Haiki, 21, executed

I'll behave... take me to the mountain.

You took care of Mochihara, I guess.

RLF Tanzawa Base

Motohisa Kato, 16, RLF

Welcome.

These are my little brothers.

The three RLF brothers of the Kato household, eh? Right on!

Everyone is out in duty, it's just us.

Check this out. The Core Faction has taken the front line.

Three Police die at Narita

They're really going for it.

Other groups using bombs begin to appear

Kawashima,

a warrant for your arrest.

RLF Chairman Go Kawashima's wife, Yoko

Yoshitaka Kato, 22 and 5 others arrested

RLF members Seiji Segi and Shinobu Matsumoto escape

Hey everyone.

Segi and Matsumoto took off.

What are you up to?

We're going to cross the mountain and head to the South Alps.

Really? If you have any problems, go ahead and use the hut up there.

Thanks very much.

What's up? You look...

I'll have a beer.

Hi Kin. Long time no see.

But, we might not meet again for a while.

Hiroshi Kin, 20, RAF

Are you going under?

I keep asking 'em to let me join up with the underground Central Army.

But they never listen.

It seems I'm always suspect.

Worrying about it won't do any good.

Cheer up!

Our turn is coming next.

The real battle is going to start next May, when Okinawa is returned.

It'll be an intense battle.

But I'm ready.

You're all pumped up.

I want to be reborn as a Red Army soldier.

Hurry up and call me.

Don't get too down.

Dec 3 : RAF Arakura Base

Before the general assembly, I want to raise the issue of the water.

We thought we had to spend a night on a ridge with no water to reach the base.

The RLF failed to prepare water canisters.

Fortunately, we were able to replenish.

But this could have endangered

Setsuko Otsuki, 23

the joint military training operation.

Heiji Iwata, 20

So first, I'd like to hear self-criticism for lacking revolutionary awareness.

True, we were naive about the water canteens.

We hadn't had water problems with any bases before.

I heard we had to spend a night without water,

but hadn't thought that far.

I admit our negligence could have ruined the plans and criticize myself.

I'll raise my revolutionary consciousness and fight through the all-out war.

No objection.

No objection!

Joint Military Training- Day One

Joint Military Training- Day Two

Take up the side!

Here we go, fire!

I can't hear you.

Move quickly.

I can't hear you.

Leave more space!

Hurry, get up!

Toyama, why did you come to the mountain?

Why? I came for military training.

No, I mean what feelings prompted you to come?

In order to advance the revolutionary war,

I understood that I would have to become a soldier.

In the enduring stage of conflict of the global revolutionary war,

we must develop the revolutionary war in advanced countries...

But you, why did you come here?

You haven't said a word about yourself.

Why did you come to the mountain?

What do you want me to say?

We don't want to hear those kinds of things, but your actual feelings.

We want to know why you want to be a revolutionary soldier.

For the revolutionary war, we must take on a militant quality and...

No, that's not it. In more practical terms.

Because it is an extremely real situation we face.

Why did you put on make-up this morning?

Why do you need make-up in the mountains?

Why are you growing your hair out?

Before, my hair was short, and the police knew that so

I decided to grow it in order to do underground activities.

If that's the case, why not just use a wig?

I think there's another reason.

What is it?

Toyama, why don't you take off your ring?

It's important. My mom gave it to me.

Aren't you brushing your hair during meetings?

Shu just became a soldier, and we haven't worked out the woman problem yet.

I accept responsibility for raising the issue.

This is probably a difference between city safe houses and mountain bases.

I think it's a difference in style between the RAF and the RLF.

What have you all done since you came to the mountain?

You haven't done a thing.

The RAF doesn't understand anything.

You have this great mountain hut, and plenty of food.

But, living in a mountain base isn't so simple.

If things are like this,

all the work put in by the RLF will be meaningless.

There's no way we can work together.

We accept the RLF's criticisms of Toyama as general critiques of the RAF.

Though, the RLF's mutual and self-criticism emerged naturally,

evaluation from the perspective of the communist movement is also worthy.

We must address the relations between each revolutionary group from that perspective.

Through mutual critique, from each individual becoming communist

the all-out war can be won.

No objection!

Thus, until comrade Toyama criticizes her activities and becomes a communist,

we will not let her leave the mountain.

All of us will support comrade Toyama's self-critique.

She herself must work hard to go through critique.

Additionally, self-criticism is demanded of all others who require it.

Anyone leaving the mountain for something other than prescribed duty

will be executed.

No objection!

No objection!

Joint Military Training - Final Day

Michiyo Kaneko, 23

Hurry up, c'mon.

It's ok, hurry up!

- A little more. - Hurry, you're lagging!

Yamada, can you take over?

There are scratches right here.

Wasn't it Shindo in charge of the guns?

Shindo, neglecting these scratches was irresponsible.

Shindo, we've been activists together a long time.

You must have a lot to tell me.

I don't mind, go ahead and criticize. I want to critique my past activities.

Oh, I've got a bunch.

Uegaki, do you know what critique involves?

It's not like there is some set procedure.

Toyama, you don't understand a damn thing.

No one can teach you how to do self-critique.

Self-critique means you alone discover the most revolutionary task for you.

And Shindo, you didn't even notice the scratches on the guns...

How can you criticize Uegaki? You asshole!

Before you criticize him, you have a lot to criticize yourself over.

Both of you will undergo critique through training!

You too, Namekata!

Masatoki Namekata, 22

All three of you should reflect on the

significance of the struggle up to now.

Think about how to elevate the struggle from here.

The three of them are ideologically loose, we can't be easy on them.

Everyone must lead together so they can complete self-critique.

Now we will hear the results from each of them individually.

But the content of their critiques must be expressed by them or it's meaningless.

What did you acquire through training?

I was reborn, I will start from scratch as a revolutionary soldier.

No, that isn't self-critique, that's nothing.

You must engage in critique more subjectively!

How have you critiqued your activities up to now?

How do you see the failed struggle at Tokyo University?

You haven't gone through self-criticism at all.

I've been ambiguous up to now about the all-out war.

But through training, I've been able to banish those thoughts.

You've put the RAF Central Army in grave danger because of Mochihara.

If you aren't critiquing yourself for that, what the hell are you doing?

You must continue!

Toyama, just a little more, keep it up.

Stay strong!

I'm going to Haruna base.

I'll be back in a week. Make sure they undergo self-criticism.

I think Toyama is sending money to Shigenobu in Palestine.

Find out the route and how much she's sending.

Don't be deceived.

Toyama, when you contact Shigenobu, where do you send the letters?

You sent money too, right? How much and how did you send it?

Mori wants to know. Tell us.

If you can tell us, write it down.

We'll put it in an envelope and give it to him.

Dec 15 : The RLF base at Haruna is complete

Thanks for your hard work.

Go ahead.

Welcome.

First, we're having a thorough discussion.

The RLF's attack on the police station last December

showed that the struggle with the enemy is one of "kill or be killed"

and that winning the all-out war requires the captures of arms.

The attack on the gun shop in February

was fought in practice as a reflection stemming from the December attack.

But these arms, revolutionized by theft,

Mitsuo Ozaki, 22

brought heavy pressure from the enemy

during this deadly time of war.

Makie Terabayashi, 23 Aiko Nakamura, 22

The RLF's withdrawal to the mountain is imbued

with this protective struggle.

In this process leading ultimately to all-out war,

we must reaffirm and debate our own

Kazuko Ito, 22

revolutionary status as individuals.

So our first task is to question whether each of us can truly maintain

this path to all-out war.

We must question ourselves once more.

Thus, the RAF and the RLF

will no longer pursue communist revolution as separate subjects.

We will do so together as an armed URA with one subjectivity.

No objection.

Welcome back.

Junichi Yamamoto, 28 His wife, Yasuko, 28

Hey, it's my big brother! Welcome back.

I put absolute faith in the leadership of the RLF.

The "Commemoration for the Massacre of Comrade Shibano"

held at the public hall in Itabashi.

was the first great step towards the all-out war.

The leaders purged the names of RLF members

from the hosts and sought unexpected comments.

Plus, they prescribed separatism

with regard to the legal members who planned the meeting.

the legal members followed the leader's suggestions

in hosting the 12/18 meeting and deserve no criticism.

Now is the time for all members -legal and imprisoned,

to forge militant bonds and pursue all-out war.

Thus, with the meeting falling into chaos,

the leaders' calls for factionalism warrant self-criticism.

Among those who were caught last month

why were you alone able to get out after 23 days?

Because I kept my mouth shut.

You did talk to the police, right?

Yes, when they let me eat.

Then, you didn't keep your mouth shut completely.

But I didn't let them make a record.

In an age of all-out war, casual conversation is not silence.

In reflecting on your prison time,

you self-criticism must be with your arrest.

Right, tell us everything about getting caught.

You should be critiquing all your activities up to now.

Let's go.

Hold on! I'm coming.

Lately, I've been thinking about death.

They keep saying "self-critique" but I don't always know what they mean.

Lately, Mori has gotten really strong. He might be able to pull it off.

But I don't think escaping is an option.

For the revolution to succeed, we must critique our past activities.

We can't be intimidated.

In front of Mori and everyone, you've got to change your attitude.

I know. My ability to make the leap is being questioned.

Take over for me. I'm catching cold.

What's up? You okay?

I'm scared.

I feel like what happened before could happen again.

It's alright, Kojima. It won't happen again.

I don't want to die.

I want to get off the mountain.

You can't say that. If they find out, you're in trouble.

I don't understand what Nagata and Mori are talking about.

What do I do?

Its rough, but you have to do self-critique.

How do I do it?

If we just go through self-critique, we can make a revolution?

You're supposed to be undergoing self-critique.

What the fuck are you doing?

Is this a serious critique?

Hey, Kato!

Where the hell do you think you are?

Kato and Kojima have spoiled the sacred space of the party.

We have to destroy the limitations to your self-critique.

In order to overcome those limits, we must "beat" them.

You'll come to with the self-awareness of a new human,

capable of being communist.

Leadership means beating.

Now is the time to put this leadership into practice.

We must forge the party in preparation for all-out war.

No objection!

Kato, criticize your shameful acts and answer with the necessary reflection!

In the opinion report on the December meeting,

the point on guns was absent.

Do you really have the will to fight in the all-out war?

When I was arrested, I criticize myself for not trying to break free.

I soiled the sacred space of the party.

Listen, this is the revolutionary praxis of self-critique.

You need to be more revolutionary!

And you called me petit bourgeois!

Kojima, you're guilty too. Stand up.

Wait, wait, wait.

If a man beats her, that won't work, it'll just make her happy.

Sugisaki, Kaneko.

- Stand up and get to it. - Critique them!

No crying!

Everyone move aside.

Hurry up. Hey, you've got to beat him too.

So he undergoes proper critique. Hurry and beat him!

You need to do this for your own advance.

It hurts, but you've got to stick with it.

Think of it as practice for all-out war!

Overcome this situation and finish the critique.

Show your will.

Brother! Critique yourself!

Motoshisa!

This is helping your comrades.

Pummel him!

Critique yourself!

The demand for Kato's critique is the externalization of self-criticism.

But, you were resentful of him calling you petit bourgeois.

Your criticism of him was based on individual feelings.

This warps the meaning of critique and trivializes his transition to communism.

So, you need to critique your own past activities.

Ozaki, what is your self-critique for the 12/18 action?

Shibano invited you but you didn't go.

Had there been one more person,

he might not have been killed by the police.

How do you critique yourself for that?

What would you have done if you had been there?

Show us how you would confront the cops!

Can someone play the part of the police?

- Stand up. - Critique yourself!

You're not done yet.

This is meaningless.

Ozaki, do you have what it takes to do self-critique?

Reporting instructions.

Tomorrow the RAF will evacuate from here.

Toyama...

Shindo...

and Namenaka will affirm their self-critique

and move with us to Harune base.

After Uegaki and Yamazaki remove all traces and personal effects.

They will gather at Haruna Base.

Aoto will contact the revolutionary front in Tokyo.

Ah, dumplings,

dumplings.

That guy has no idea what critique means.

If we just leave him, he'll never be able to do it.

With Kato, we pummeled his face to instill that reflection,

but still, he didn't get it.

In demanding critique, we have to make them lose consciousness.

For Ozaki's critique, concentrate on the stomach to make him pass out.

Ozaki, your spirit needs to be more revolutionary.

Hang in there. Work through the critique!

Stick with it.

You'll be reborn as a soldier of the revolution.

Hang in there, Ozaki!

Tonight is New Year's Eve, so let's feast.

I have something to report before we eat.

Ozaki is dead.

It was a death of defeat.

The communist movement we stake our lives on is a battle he couldn't win.

He brought on his own death through defeat.

His death does not belong to us.

He could not critique his own defeatism and this resulted in his death.

We will overcome his defeat.

We must greet the New Year with a new commitment to advancing.

Let us be thankful for our food.

Ozaki had been Sakaguchi's junior

at Tokyo Fisheries University.

Dec 31, 1971: Mitsuo Ozaki, 21, dead

I criticize myself for failing to notice the scratches on the guns.

With such negligence, can you fight the all-out war?

What is your self-critique for letting Mochibara get away

and putting the party in danger?

Stand up.

Be strong.

Shindo, it's for the revolution, critique yourself.

Make yourself a communist.

Shindo, your critique is called for!

Why are you doing this to me?

Is this really...

necessary...

for the revolution?

You must consider the reasons on your own.

You must undergo self-critique!

Hey, Toyama.

Namekata!

Is your critique over?

If so, you should be able to do this too.

Go ahead!

C'mon, hurry.

It's for Shinoda.

What was your critique at Arakura base?

You do it too!

Go ahead!

I can't do it.

What did you do at Arakura?

When did you change clothes?

Why do you come up to the mountain?

To worry about how you look?

You haven't completed your critique!

Reactionary.

I thought you were a revolutionary soldier.

Shindo was arrested at Yasuda Hall at Tokyo University in January 1969.

After being released,

he organized day laborers in Tokyo and Yokohama before joining the RAF.

A member of the unit that plotted Plan M, he didn't follow Mori's instructions.

He had Mochihara escape to avoid execution.

Jan 1, 1972 : Ryuzaburo Shindo, 21, dead

Kojima had been a junior of Terabayashi's, joining

the RLF to fight the security treaty.

She had been Yoshitaka Kato's lover.

She had always regretted participating in the executions

of Haiki and Mukaiyama.

Jan 1 : Kazuko Kojima, 22, dead

I'm back. I've brought a couple comrades.

Excuse me.

Long time no see.

How's it going?

Where's Shindo?

Don't just sit there.

Say something!

Your statements are no self-critique.

Do you really have the will for critique?

You being a founding member of the RAF

has no bearing here and now.

I don't want to wind up like Kojima.

I don't want to die.

I want to live.

But, I just don't understand how to self-critique.

You don't understand anything.

Saying "I want to live" is an abandoning of revolutionary thought.

A defeat with regard to communism.

To give yourself to party-building as a communist is the only meaning of "living".

Critique yourself!

What do you think of yourself?

This is why you're messed up.

Do you know what is means to become a communist?

Don't go using coquetry as a weapon.

Have Toyama do critique by burying Kojima

I'm gonna do self-critique all the way, and be a solider for revolution!

I'll endure the agony.

So, give me more trials.

I won't give up.

Take a good look at Kojima's face!

It's the face of defeat.

Even after death, she's anti-revolutionary.

I carried the body because I had to overcome my fear of death

in order to become a revolutionary soldier.

With this, I've taken one step closer.

That's not what I'm asking!

Are you capable of critiquing yourself?

Let's see you hit yourself.

Yes, I'll do it.

Show me how you do critique without help from your comrades.

Strike those proud lips!

Crush that naughty nose!

Aim for those leering eyes!

No resting!

Keep going until you finish the critique!

You can't be soft!

Go ahead and take a look at that face

boys found so charming.

Please let me go to the bathroom.

Please let me go to the bathroom.

Dirty slut.

Yoshitaka...?

My brother...

Anyone who could do this is beyond hope.

This isn't revolution.

Among the RLF, only Kato and Maezawa

opposed the executions of Haiki and Mukaiyama.

It's so cold...

Can someone undo the rope...

Nevermind... it's ok like this.

My hands... my hands hurt...

Someone... cut off my hands.

Don't cut them...

Mom, I'm going to do it.

Mom... Mom...

I'll persevere.

Just wait... I'll make you so happy.

I won't give up, mom...

Shut the fuck up!

Jan 7: Mieko Toyama, 25, dead

Jan 9: Masatoki Namekata, 22, dead

Namekata had been arrested

at the barricades of Tokyo University

and joined the RAF after his release on bail.

Becoming a communist...

is not a question of your record in past struggles.

It must be judged by becoming a communist

and forming a new revolutionary party to begin the war.

The RAF has critiqued those whose consciousness was lagging.

The communist movement develops through multiples enduring junctions

requiring proletarian loyalty and humanity.

In order to advance this movement.

Without more effort than the six who died of defeat, we cannot win.

I want each of us to examine our actions, to sort out our tasks.

Does your silence mean there are no problems with your actions?

Truly, can all of you become communists?

To win the revolution, each party member must undergo self-criticism.

You must all squarely face your own tasks.

And critique deeply.

If I continue like this, I will never become a communist.

Since I had sexual relations with Mukaiyama who was executed last year.

And unless I critique what happened with Watanabe in prison,

I cannot become a communist.

Is that all?

When I met with the above-ground members,

I used collection money to buy pants.

Also, when I went down, I got a perm in Takasaki.

Mori, Otsuki here is a second Toyama.

Let's have her do a proper critique.

Fine. We need to resolve the Toyama problem within the RLF.

Anything else?

No one?

I heard Kaneko say "This is meaningless" during the critique of Ozaki.

And Kaneko split from Yoshino.

She's trying to claim the child in her belly is her own instead of the party's.

Do you have any points for inspection?

I have thought about pushing Nagata aside

and becoming a top leader in the party.

What is your self-critique?

I criticize myself for trying to make use of the organization.

You tried to use us, to make the organization your property.

You're a Stalinist!

I sentence you to death.

Teraoka was sentenced not to self-critique but to die.

He was one of the highest members of the RLF.

He supervised the raid on the gun shop

and the executions of Haiki and Mukaiyama.

I want each of us to reflect on the execution of Teraoka.

Yamazaki,

why were you standing behind everyone else during the execution?

Because I have the same issues and thought I might be executed too.

What do you mean?

Honestly, I've also been calculating at times and used people.

Iwata and Nakamura escaped!

Yamazaki.

You're a Stalinist just like Teraoka.

I sentence you to death!

Yamazaki, like Teraoka, received a "death sentence".

Yamazaki was a member of the central army, and executed Plan M.

His early education was in Germany

and he attended Tokyo's famed Hibiya High School.

Jan 20: Jun Yamazaki, 21, executed

Now, with the party endangered by those two anti-revolutionaries

an even deeper critique will be necessary to become a revolutionary soldier.

Kaneko,

your self-critique lately seems to have weakened.

Having a baby in your belly is no excuse to relax.

What to you think of Mori?

I think he's someone with cute eyes.

What the hell do you mean cute eyes!

You have no respect for the leader!

Do you think you can become a revolutionary like that?

You need a stronger critique.

Otsuki, you said you had a relationship with that deserter Mukaiyama.

It was to get information from that traitor...

Hiding your relationship all along is a reactionary act!

I'm back.

I'm Okusawa.

Nice to meet you.

Let's go for it.

Jan 26: Kasho Base, Gunma Prefecture

Why didn't you stop the car like you were ordered?

I think my judgment was correct in that case.

Can't you follow party orders?

You must undergo critique and forge yourself anew!

Yamamoto quit his job and gave his retirement money to the RLF.

He brought his wife and child to the mountain.

Jan 30: Junichi Yamamoto, 28, dead

Otsuki had been a RLF activist longer than anyone but Nagata.

She was the lover of Watanabe,

who had been wounded in the Police Station attack.

She died one week shy of her 24th birthday.

The car is fixed.

Oh, both of you went to public baths?

Yeah, we had some time while the car was being repaired.

Just the two of you went on your own?

What were you thinking doing something like that. Critique yourself!

Was it bad to let Okusawa in?

That's not the problem.

Why the fuck are you talking like that, like you're privileged!

Otsuki, Sagisaki and Kaneko

Feb 4: Michiyo Kaneko, 23, dead

were known as "The Blossoming Trio of Yokohama University".

Kaneko had been 8 months pregnant.

The father of her child was Masakuni Yoshino.

Can you break everything down at Haruna base, Sakaguchi?

I leave it to you from here.

What happened?

Feb 6: Yasuko Yamamoto escaped

The cops might come. I'll fight. What are you going to do?

Gimme a gun.

I'm fighting too!

Warn those breaking down Haruna base of the danger.

We'll regroup at a cave on Mt. Myogi. It's on the map here.

Feb 7: Torayshi Meazawa escaped

Feb 12: Mt. Myogi

If I could advance the revolution by dying

I would gladly be killed!

Where is the revolution?

Why don't you self-critique?

Yamada, who chaired the Bund in Kyoto, was close to RAF chair Shioni.

Debilitated, he convalesced in the hospital

before returning as a soldier in Mori's RAF.

Feb 12: Takashi Yamada, 27, dead

Apart from the three defectors, everyone's moved to Mt Myogi.

Yamada died there, in defeat.

Listen, Sakaguchi.

I'm leaving you for Mori.

From the communist perspective it's the right thing to do.

I understand.

I've been relying on you for my thought and I want to break away.

I critique myself for being married to the kind of woman

I couldn't bring to the mountain.

I think being together with Nagata is the correct thing to do.

If I don't think like this

I'll never become a communist.

I'll tell my wife as soon as possible.

I have a kid too.

My wife will cry but...

Can you let me talk to Nagata alone for a minute?

I do love you.

That kind of language is no longer permissible.

What do you think of critique?

As the battle with the ruling powers intensifies

we all must be communists to advance the revolution.

I've lost track of the meaning of critique.

I still don't know why Mori sentenced Teraoka to die.

He was a factionalist, he might have escaped or informed.

He lacked the qualifications to be a revolutionary.

Fine, enough...

I'm going back.

You're ok, right?

Sakaguchi...

It's Uegaki.

They found out about Haruna base.

We've gotta move quick.

Even if we destroy the armed enemy, the unarmed enemy remains!

Even if we destroy the armed enemy, the unarmed enemy remains!

We must root out enemy toxins and our own impurities!

We must root out enemy toxins and our own impurities!

Revolutionary war is the antidote!

Revolutionary war is the antidote!

Run! Run!

Your boots are ruined.

I'll give you one of mine.

If we live to meet again, give it back.

I'll return it twice over.

Goddammit it.

Put the radio on.

This morning in the mountain of Gunma prefecture

extremists Hiroko Nagata and Tsuneo Mori were arrested.

She was a leading activist of the RLF.

Police are searching the area for more members in hiding.

Last night, two other suspected members were arrested.

Their relation are under investigation.

A planner of the gun shop raid last February

Nagata was wanted by the police.

According to police investigation,

the RLF joined with the RAF, who had executed the Yodogo hijacking

their movements have been under watch.

I repeat...

That's enough.

Tomorrow morning we form two groups and break out.

Alright, here we go.

- See ya. - Be careful.

Feb 19, 1972:

Uegaki, Aoto, Terabayashi and Ito are reported by citizens and arrested

Go, keep going.

A little further.

Damn. Don't stop.

Don't stop!

Keep going, faster!

Don't give up.

Don't give up.

Get out of here.

Motohisa, don't give up!

Keep going, don't look back!

A little more!

Mt. Asama, Nagano Prefecture

Here, drink this.

We're the revolutionary army.

We're sorry, but we have to occupy this place.

We intend you no harm.

But please remain quiet.

Is anyone else here?

We have some guests, but they're out skating.

When will they be back?

Around 6.

Anyone else?

My husband. Now, he's walking the dog.

Pull up the tatami floor.

I'm really sorry, but I have to tie you up.

What do we do now?

For now, let's recover our balance.

No objection.

Hello? Ma'am?

Are you there?

It's okay.

This is the chief of police of Karuizawa.

You students in the lodge are surrounded.

There is no way to escape.

Stop shooting, dammit!

Discard your guns and come out.

The manager's wife has nothing to do with this.

Let her go immediately.

We are communists.

Our goal is to overthrow the powers

that oppress the masses for capitalists' profit.

We're fighting for the revolution to end war and inequality in the world.

Think of this as something like protesters seeking help

from civilian homes to escape police during demonstrations.

So, you are not a hostage.

We are just borrowing this lodge from you.

Let's hold a meeting to decide on a plan.

We won't get anywhere like this.

We should shoot our way out of the siege.

Impossible. The lodge is surrounded by many layers.

I think shooting our way out is impossible too.

If we take her, we might be able to escape.

The cops can't make any careless blunders.

Where could we go? The cops will be after us forever.

Let's take her hostage and demand the release of Mori and Nagata.

The cops will never go for that.

It's useless to launch some suicidal breakthrough missions.

We fight an absolute war of resistance here.

If so, then we don't need her.

We can release her right now.

No way!

Her presence gives us an advantage to continue the resistance.

We're fighting a towering enemy,

our only option is to exploit their weakness.

With their fake calls for democracy,

superficially they have to uphold human life.

So, her protection for now is our best tactic.

It is permitted for this strategic confrontation.

The plan is to fight a war of resistance while protecting her.

Is everyone okay with that?

No objection!

We have enough food supplies to fight for about a month.

We conserve from today, and make rice porridge.

No objection.

We are now in a war of position. Don't waste bullets.

No objection.

No objection.

Ma'am, I'm very sorry.

Haven't you made enough disturbance.

Let the woman go!

I'll take her place if you want someone. Please come out.

She's aged so much...

Masakuni, if you're there, please listen.

I understand how you all feel.

But aren't your actions contradicting your words?

Why did you quit university?

Wasn't it to sacrifice yourself for the good of society?

Release the woman!

That's true courage.

Using our parents, damn.

What dirty bastards!

My folks ran a flower shop where I grew up.

It's the countryside they'll be ostracized for sure.

My old man...

He'll probably have to leave the company.

Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leaders.

Later, with Henry Kissinger...

Unbelievable...

What'll happen to "anti-American patriotism"?

Masakuni, President Nixon's gone to China.

We've entered a new age.

So, throw out your guns and come out.

The police say they won't shoot if you come out.

Nagata and others were caught, but they're unhurt.

Ma'am, are you injured?

I don't know how to apologize, I'm so sorry.

Son, can you shoot at your own mother?

Sakaguchi, some strange guy is at the front door.

Red Army members! I'm an intellectual.

I understand your feelings. I'm coming to replace the woman.

I'm on your side.

I've left my wife and kid behind and come from Niigata.

So, please let me in.

Go back!

Or I'll shoot!

Student in the lodge!

He's a civilian, not a police officer.

Don't shoot.

I repeat, he's not a police officer.

Don't shoot.

Feb 22: Masaniko Tagawa, 30, bar owner, is shot.

He died a week later.

You are completely surrounded.

Throw out your guns. Come out immediately.

If you have any conscience, show us the woman.

Stop shooting.

Please come out with the hostage.

Your parents are worried. Bring the hostage and come out.

Please! Stop firing!

Reporting the latest news...

The stalemate continues at Asama Mountain Lodge.

The Nagano police plan to send in an armed squadron

to break off the stalemate.

Prior to this, the Commissioner General has announced

that they will continue to use discussion and persuasion...

How's it going, Motohisa?

There's no movement.

The power's cut.

We've arrested all your peers.

Throw out your guns and come out.

It's just sounds.

They're just playing a tape to rile us up.

Sweetie! Are you ok? You aren't cold?

Everyone's here, hang in there.

We're all waiting for you to come back.

Sis, everything's okay.

Just stay patient a little longer.

You'll get out soon, hang in there.

All of you listen, please return my daughter.

I think you've accomplished your goals. So, please, let my daughter go.

I want to set everyone at ease.

Even just a minute, let me stand on the balcony.

Even a phone call would be ok. Please, let me call.

I just want to tell them I'm ok.

The police already know you're ok.

They're using bugs.

They're having your family speak to manipulate public opinion.

I know it's tough, but just bear with it.

Be strong. Because everyone's with you.

I've done everything I could for you, you're my reason for living.

We really understand you all want to make the world better.

Even the police praise you.

But if you hurt someone, you'll get hurt yourselves.

We'll wait all day and tomorrow too. Just come out.

Let's go home and eat a meal together.

They're here!

You're completely surrounded.

Give up your guns and come out.

All your friends are arrested.

Release the hostage and come out.

Today during the operation, Bando ate more than his ration.

This as a major violation or military codes during all-out war.

Self-criticism is required.

No, during the operation, a certain degree of autonomy is permitted.

Provided this results in no serious effect,

we should allow individual judgments on food supplies.

Have we not sought our comrade's self-critiques

in the name of revolutionary discipline?

That very cookie you ate is an anti-revolutionary symbol.

This is wartime.

We're fighting an enemy.

Finally fighting the real enemy!

This is idiotic.

There's no such thing as anti-revolutionary cookies.

How can you face your comrades?

Criticize yourselves.

Why have we come this far?

Point your guns at the enemy. We're comrades!

Bando, just criticize yourself and all will be fine.

I criticize myself for eating snacks during duty.

I will preserve revolutionary discipline from here on.

I will strengthen group bonds.

I will fight through to the end of the all-out war!

From their movements, it looks like the police will storm the lodge soon.

I want to make your position clear.

The ruling powers only know how to solve problems by applying more force.

The battle is about to get much more severe.

But we will never hurt you.

This much I promise.

We are here to fight the police.

So we have no intention to use you as a hostage.

We will not ask you to be our ally.

But neither do we want you to go with the police.

We want you to remain neutral.

The police talk like they're concerned about your safety

but we are their target.

They won't think anything of sacrificing a civilian.

Their real aim is to steal our social consciousness

and our political goal of revolution.

The police have known all along that you're safe.

In order for us to fight the police, we want you to stay neutral.

If they use the tactic of force, we will do everything we can to protect you.

What do you mean by fighting with the police?

We mean to start a revolution.

Revolution?

We will radically remake Japanese society.

Even you don't think Japan is okay as it is, do you?

Whatever happens...

can you promise us neutrality?

Promise you neutrality?

Standing neither with the police nor with us.

If you just remain the inn manager, that's fine.

But I have one request.

If this goes to trial, don't call me as a witness.

Okay, I promise.

Thank you.

Feb 28, 1972

This is the chief of police

with an announcement for the criminals in the lodge.

It's not too late.

Don't compound your crimes.

Free the hostage, discard your guns and come out!

If you're willing to talk, stand with the hostage

in a place where the police can see you, with a white rag.

The police won't wait any longer!

I'll warn you again.

The battle is here at last.

It's either victory or death for us.

If we die, we can probably meet in the other world.

I'm glad the all-out war isn't tomorrow.

Otherwise, our death anniversary would only come every 4 years.

This is a message from the Chief of Police.

You've ignored multiple warnings

and continued with your brutal crimes.

Soon, to save the hostage, officers will use force.

This is your last chance.

Discard your weapons and stand in a visible place with a white rag.

We are now going to use force to rescue the hostage.

Cease your useless resistance.

We are now going to use force to rescue the hostage.

I wish our comrades could have been here for this meal.

Our battles inherit their spilled blood.

Our debt...

is to our fallen comrades.

Let's pay back the debt.

We'll pick up the pieces.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Now of all times?

How are you gonna pick up the pieces?

Not one of us

had any courage!

Not you either

Not you either

Sakaguchi!

Not you either!

You're a Stalinist!

I sentence you to death.

You had no courage!

I had no courage...

We had no courage!

Give up!

You bastard!

Get the guns!

Use the handcuffs!

Feb 28, 1972: Hiroshi Sakaguchi arrested

Kunio Bando arrested

Masakuni Yoshino arrested

Michinori Kato arrested

Motohisa Kato held as a minor

1635 riot police mobilized

Two police officers and one civilian killed. 27 injured

Weapons used by police:

3126 tear gas canisters, 326 smoke bombs, 96 rubber bullets

83 flares, 15.82 tons of water.

How dark things were...

a year ago today.

When I look back on myself over this year.

I feel relentless self-loathing and despair.

I've found a direction.

What I need now is true courage.

My first revolutionary trial. To make the leap.

Tsuneo Mori, 28 - Jan 1, 1973: committed suicide in prison

Hiroko Nagata: currently in prison on death row

Hiroshi Sakaguchi: currently in prison on death row

Masakuni Yoshino: serving life sentence

Kunio Bando: Released by demand of JRA (Japanese Red Army)

Current whereabouts unknown

Takamaro Tamiya: died in 1995 in Pyongyang

May 30: JRA attack on Israel's Tel Aviv Airport

Jan 31: PFLP and JRA blow up Singapore Refinery

Jul 26: JRA member Yoshika Yamada arrested in Paris

Aug 30: EAAAF (East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front)

dynamites Mitsubishi building.

JRA secures release of Yoshiaki Yamada by hijacking US embassy in the Hague.

1975 Mar 5: JRA members Jun Nishikawa and Kazuo Tohira arrested

in Stockholm and extradited to Japan.

Aug 4: JRA occupies US embassy in Kuala Lampur.

They free Nichikawa, Tohia, URA member Kunio Bando,

RAF member Hasishi Matsuda and EAAAF member Norio Sasaki.

1976 Sept 23: JRA member Junzo Okudaira, Toshihiko Hidaka arrested in Jordan.

Hidaka commits suicide.

Oct 13: JRA member Okudaira and the body of Hidaka extradited to Japan.

1977 Sept 28: JRA hijack Japan Airlines flight

In Dhaka, Okudaira, RAF member Tsutomu Shitosaki,

EAAAF members Yukiko Ekita and Ayako Daidjo,

Teru Nihira and Hiroshi Sensui are freed.

1982 June 16: Hiroko Nagata and Hiroshi Sakaguchi get death sentence

1985 May 20: JRA member Kozo Okamoto freed in prisoner exchange

1987 Nov 21: JRA member Osamu Maruoka arrested in Tokyo

1988 June 7: JRA member Hiroshi Sensui arrested in Philippines.

1995 Mar 24 : JRA member Yukiko Ekita arrested in Romania.

1996 June 8: JRA member Kazue Yoshimura arrested in Peru

Sept 23: JRA member Tsutomu Shirosaki arrested in Nepal, transferred to America.

1997 Feb 15: JRA members Kozo Okamoto, Haruo Wako, Kazuo Tohira,

Masao Adachi and Mariko Yamamoto arrested in Lebanon.

Nov 18: JRA member Jun Nishikawa arrested in Bolivia

Mar 18: JRA members Wako, Tohira, Adachi and Yamamoto transfered to Japan

2000 Nov 8: JRA member Fusako Shigenobu arrested in Osaka

2001: Fusako Shigenobu announces dissolution of JRA

2002 Mar 30:

Former JRA member Takao Himori protests

Israel's slaughter of Palestinian civilians

Pleading for freedom of Palestinian children,

he self-immolates in Tokyo's Hibiya Park.

Subtitles: Tadanobu, Editing/Timing: Evildee Thanks to: Phil Kaffen and Derbalmer