MOVIE · 1960

Night and Fog in Japan

Drama107 min

Amid the decline of Japan’s socialist student movement, activists circle back through the contemporary Zengakuren opposition and the 1950 protests against the Anpo treaty, where old arguments are still unfinished. Long takes and a starkly theatrical visual approach turn meetings and confrontations into political reckoning, with memory and personal fracture pressed into every exchange. Miyuki Kuwano and Fumio Watanabe are part of an ensemble that carries the film’s formal, confrontational style as private relationships and movement history keep colliding.