A student lynched by his own. Fifty years later, the silence finally speaks.
A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi, a student at Waseda University. The documentary interweaves testimonies from japanese intellectuals and a short play, written and directed by Shôji Kôkami, about the murder.
Direction
Daishima's surgical intercutting of archive and staged reenactment.
Production
Kôkami's play-within-doc collapses temporal distance brutally.
Director
Haruhiko Daishima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1972 United Red Army purge remains Japan's most suppressed leftist wound; this is the first theatrical documentary to stage survivor testimony.
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