It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011): Cast

First in a planned series on radical auteurs, the film profiles Masao Adachi, a key figure of Japan’s 1960s New Wave who wrote for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu before directing avant‑garde sex‑exploitation movies. A 1971 visit to a PFLP training camp produced the agit‑prop documentary Red Army/PFLP, co‑directed with Wakamatsu. He later joined a splinter Japanese Red Army cell in Lebanon, staying from 1974 until his 1997 deportation for passport violations.

• PG Director Philippe Grandrieux

• MA Masao Adachi as themselves
• NO Naruhiko Onozawa as themselves

• Unrest 2017
• Despite the Night 2015
• Murderess 2015
• White Epilepsy 2012

Also known as

• 美が私たちの決断をいっそう強めたのだろう 足立正生
• Probabilmente la bellezza ha rinforzato il nostro proposito