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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.
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Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Kei Satō, Rokkō Toura, Akiko Koyama, Shinko Ujiie, Ichirô Hayami, Takao Yoshizawa
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