Revolution+1 extends Adachi Masao’s long-standing scrutiny of political power, oppression, and social inequality into the present. The film offers a fictionalised account of the man who assassinated former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō in 2022, approaching the subject through the structural pressures that shaped his life.

Kawakami Tatsuya’s mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband’s suicide and makes a large donation. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due to illness, later takes his own life. Tatsuya comes to believe that the religious group has ruined his life, leading him to construct a homemade gun and carry out an assassination plot against Abe, who had close ties to the organisation his mother trusted.

Made and released with striking speed, the pilot version was screened to coincide with Abe’s state funeral and circulated through small cinemas across Japan. Recalling Adachi’s early guerrilla methods of production and distribution, the film is conceived to provoke debate rather than offer resolution, continuing his project of interrogating the systems that shape individual lives and political action.