Rain of Light
MovieTitle | 光の雨 |
User score | 5.2 |
Release date | Dec 8, 2001 |
Genre | Drama, History |
Director | Banmei Takahashi |
Production country | Japan |
Run time | 130 min. |
This documentary-style film recreates the infamous Asama Sanso Incident of 1972 wherein an extreme faction of the Students Allied Red Army holed themselves up in a mountainous cabin in the dead of winter. By the time the police finally caught up with them, it was discovered that they had murderously turned upon themselves in a bizarre extension of their radical philosophy. This event virtually marked the end of the Student Revolution.