It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi 2011
The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.
- Title: It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: France
- Studio: Epileptic
- Director: Philippe Grandrieux
- Cast: Masao Adachi, Naruhiko Onozawa
- Crew: Philippe Grandrieux (Director), Annick Lemonnier (Producer), Philippe Grandrieux (Director of Photography), Philippe Grandrieux (Editor), Philippe Grandrieux (Sound Designer), Charles Lamoureux (Sound Designer)
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- Release: Jul 08, 2011
- Runtime: 73 minutes
- IMDb: 6.50 / 10 by 6 users
- Popularity: 0
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: Français, 日本語
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