A.K.A. Serial Killer
Jan 31 1975
•1h 26m
•Crime, Documentary
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.
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Masao Adachi
Narrator (voice)
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