This book investigates how films made about the URA since the 1990s have engaged with, reproduced and contested cultural memories of the organisation, discussing how directors have addressed questions of narrativization, trauma, intergenerational connection, and political subjectivity as they engage in the politics of cultural memory on screen.

Christopher Perkins is Lecturer in Japanese in the department of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a PhD in politics and international relations from Royal Holloway University of London and has published articles and book chapters on Japanese media, memory politics, cinema, and border politics.

1. The URA, politics and the aesthetics of memory 2. The Japanese New Left and the URA 3. A spectacle of sex, violence and madness 4. Horror, sympathy and empathy 5. The Image, Seeing and the Siege 6. Conclusion