Japan
Ambitious (3 hours long) docudrama which attempted to depict the social upheaval Japan went through in the 60's and 70's. Little-noticed here in the US, it took on the same tone as the Baader-Meinhof rebellions in Europe...for all the same reasons....anti-nuke, Vietnam, piggy oligarchy, etc.
Their rebellion featured the same hard-eyed radicals backed by a bunch of starry-eyed idealists. They were picked off one by one with the state using ever-escalating violence and today are seen as deluded fools. Like ours, and Europe's they knew what they wanted, sort of, but had no idea how to get there.
I only got through half of this because...well, really... Like Frank Zappa said...ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway?
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