Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old.

William Andrews’ new book explores Adachi Masao's radical cinema, the Japanese New Left, and decades of involvement with the infamous Japanese Red Army.

William Andrews’ book is the first English giant upon whose shoulders people interested in Masao Adachi and his oeuvre can stand on.

Asakusa is housed in a small residential property built in 1965 in Asakusa, one of the Tokyo’s most bustling tourist districts, and is located steps away from busy streets in a secluded area where 20 ...

There is an irresistible temptation to read filmmaker Adachi Masao’s life as if it were itself a movie. A Japanese New Wave filmmaker disappears into Lebanon, becomes associated with the Japanese Red ...

John talks to Tokyo-based researcher, writer and translator William Andrews about Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw, his new biography of this provocative filmmaker and revolutionary.

What started as dry goods shops serving the elite became sprawling emporiums that helped usher in an age of mass consumption.

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Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport over 50 years ago, has died in Beirut at 78

On 26 June, the Tokyo High Court handed down a ruling in an appeal filed by three bereaved family members seeking damages from the state over the death of left-wing activist Hoshino Fumiaki in 2019…

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

A tribute to Koji Wakamatsu, one of Japanese cinema’s most uncompromising voices, whose work transformed pinku, exploitation, political cinema, and low-budget filmmaking into a radical language of sex...

This year has seen the publication of Wakayama Tadataka’s photo book Threshold from Akaaka, the latest in a growing corpus of photographic practices that engage with the legacy of the Narita …

Japanese leader Sanae Takaichi has called for discussions to revise the constitution, saying it should ‘reflect the demands of the times’

A conversation with Tatsuki Kihira, a Japanese comrade active in organizing the 2024 tuition protests, about their approaches to composition and escalation, the movement’s vertical and horizontal conn...

Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war

The director and ex-Japanese Red Army militant discusses his new film Escape, about the anarchist fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, the frustrations of radical film-making and progressive politics

Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished

安倍晋三元首相の銃撃犯である山上徹也をモデルに描いた映画「REVOLUTION＋1」の特別上映会およびトークライブ「安倍元首相銃撃犯・山上徹也裁判は何だったのか」が、2月17日に東京・新宿歌舞伎町のロフトプラスワンにて開催される。

前の仲間の肩を掴み、道いっぱいに広がり、一匹の蛇となって右へ左へうねっていく。60年安保を前後してその最盛期を迎えた「ジグザグデモ」は、民衆の自発性、そして示威行動としての華やかさから民衆に支持された。しかし体制権力と、何よりも自身の統制力の低下を恐れた運動内指導部によって、蛇は退治された。これらの大衆運動の歴史を掘り起こすことで、前号で特集した「極中道」現象や、今の日本の社会運動の課題と打開策が...

Harumasa Abe on revolutionary organization and internecine violence in 1960s and ’70s Japan.

Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the run in 1975 after a series of corporate bombings