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January 12, 2026

Escape review

Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the run in 1975 after a series of corporate bombings

Escape review

TL;DR

  • Masao Adachi, an 86-year-old filmmaker and former revolutionary activist, made the film 'Tôsô' (Escape).
  • The film imagines the inner life of Satoshi Kirishima, Japan's most wanted fugitive from 1975.
  • Kirishima lived as a construction worker under a false name for decades before confessing on his deathbed in 2024.
  • The film explores Kirishima's concept of 'escape' as an existential state of defiance.
  • The article questions whether Kirishima's life was a form of contrition for lives lost in bombings by his comrades.

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