Film · 1980
80 min · Directed by Akira Usui
The repetition of a dull student activist's everyday life, with its limited scenery and abbreviated dialogue, slowly but surely changes with the addition of new drama. The three women's different feelings of sorrow, tenderness, and strength are deeply connected to the protagonist and flow together in a single emotion. The power of the image of a man running from his friends to the personal terrorism of a "powerful man" near the end of the film overlaps the space between the two disparate characters and makes the film more than a drama. The power of the images that run from the comrades to the personal terrorism of a "powerful" person near the end overlaps all the different spaces between them and shows us more than the development of the drama.
