In Focus: Adachi Masao
FILM POLITICS REVOLUTION
AKA Serial Killer (Restored Version)
Made in 1969, AKA Serial Killer is a landmark of Japanese political cinema and the foundational work of landscape theory. Prompted by the murders committed by the young Nagayama Norio in 1968, the film reconstructs his life through the spaces he would have encountered, treating the urban and industrial landscapes of late-1960s Japan as sites where postwar modernisation, social oppression, and state authority are visible and intertwined.