A.K.A. Serial Killer

A.K.A. Serial Killer
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Directed by	Masao Adachi
Produced by	Masao Matsuda
Cinematography	Masayuki Nonomura
Edited by	Sachiko Yamada; Fusako Ichimura;
Music by	Mototeru Takagi and Masahiko Togashi
Release date	January 31, 1975 (Japan);
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Japanese: 略称・連続射殺魔, Hepburn: Ryakushō: renzoku shasatsuma) is a Japanese documentary film directed by Masao Adachi about serial killer Norio Nagayama. Completed in 1969, it was first shown publicly in 1975.^[2]^[3]^[4] Adachi collaborated on the film with critic Matsuda Masao, directors Kōji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Ōshima, and screenwriter Mamoru Sasaki.^[4]^[5]

The soundtrack consists of free improvisations by Mototeru Takagi and Masahiko Togashi.^[1] An edited version of the soundtrack was released as Isolation by Colombia Records.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Soejima, Teruto (2018) [2002]. Free Jazz in Japan: A Personal History. Translated by Kato, David Hopkins. Public Bath Press. pp. 81–84. ISBN 978-4-9908636-5-4.
^ ^a ^b ^c "略称・連続射殺魔 (A.K.A. Serial Killer)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "略称・連続射殺魔 (A.K.A. Serial Killer)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b Sharp, Jasper (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Scarecrow Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0810857957.
^ Furuhata, Yuriko (2013). Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics. Duke University Press Books. p. 119. ISBN 978-0822355045.