Rain of Light (2001)

6.0/10 130 min Drama History

Overview

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.

Cast

Masato Hagiwara

Ren Osugi

Sansei Shiomi

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Nae Yuuki

So Yamanaka

Miwa Kawagoe

Yuka Itaya

Yūko Genkaku

Satoshi Ichijo

Ippei Kanie

Mayuko Nishiyama

Jun Toba

Rena Komine

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