Adachi Masao is a dangerous dude. After making a bunch of funky films in the ‘60s and ‘70s, he joined the Japanese Red Army (JRA) in their effort to support the fight for Palestinian independence against Israel. This is of course putting it quite romantically, because the JRA was...

Man, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. In fact, it’s been over a decade! It’s par for the course, though. With the advent of social media, people started dropping their thoughts in short-form posts, and as a general trend the amount of blogs like this...

Quick warning before you invest your time in reading this–I will spoil this film. It’s impossible to review it in a meaningful way otherwise. If you want to go in blind and haven’t read any spoilers (and let me tell you, I was rewarded greatly for doing this) I...