Revolution+1

Directed by Masao Adachi | #TIME-NUMERAL# minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere

5.45pm, Sunday, 4th February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

A dramatized documentation of the events leading up to the assassination of Shinzo Abe, as told from the perspective of his killer, from legendary, controversial and infamous Japanese filmmaker/activist Masao Adachi.

The filmmaker and activist Masao Adachi is considered one of the more controversial voices in contemporary cinema due to his heavy involvement with the Japanese Red Army and the PFLP. His new film Revolution+1 takes the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe as a starting point, dramatising the life of the assassin in the lead-up to the assassination, to formulate an ideological assault on Japan’s social order. In doing so, Adachi explicitly demands that the audience take a moral and political position on his film.

"...achieves a sharp sense of surrealism as a kind of “surfeit” reality—a sense of the absurd brought on by economic deprivation, suffering, and profound helplessness, rather than as a reaction to oppressive rationality." - Ela Bittencourt, Film Comment

Country: Japan
Year: 2022
Language: Japanese