Júheiša – Terrorist

Prisoner/Terrorist is a cinematic hallucination, a prisoner's inner monologue filled with clashing emotions: anguish and pride, pangs of guilt and a belief in the righteousness of his actions, longing for freedom and the feeling that true liberation can also be found in confinement. The judges and jury in his dispute with himself are famous revolutionaries who visit him in his cell. With references to the story of Kozo Okamoto, a member of the Japanese Red Army and one of the perpetrators of the massacre at Tel Aviv Airport in 1972 (killing 26 people), Masao Adachi steps back and examines his own fate and radical choices from a certain distance. (New Horizons International Film Festival)