Terrorist (1975 film)

Terrorist (Japanese: テロリスト, Hepburn: Terorisuto) is a 1975 Japanese short film animated and directed by Moshi Kawara, his final short he made while as a student at Kyoto Sekai University and his first serious work, telling the story of a Japanese youth who gets indoctrinated into a left-wing terrorist group which commits violent acts against society, however durring one attack the youth meets his parents in a train, resulting in a mental breakdown.
Though they went unidentified, the group is clearly meant as a reference to the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, following this, Kawara recieved mysterious death threats via letters and phone calls, this resulted in Kawara being forced to relocate from his home town of Kyoto to Tokyo to avoid any possible attacks.
Category:1975 films
Category:1975 animated films
Category:Japanese student films
Category:Japanese animated short films
Category:Films about Terrorism
Category:Films critical of Communism
Category:Film controversies in Japan
Category:1975 short films
Category:1975 anime films
Category:1970s Japanese-language films
Category:1970s Japanese films
Category:Films directed by Moshi Kawara