One of the phantom plans

After learning about Marx, Harada researched a group called the ''extreme leftists'' of Japan's New Left, which is the opposite of Marx and the Japanese Communist Party.

In particular, He read most of the prison notes of the "United Red Army" who occupied Asama Sanso in 1972 and executed his comrades one after another.

The arrested members are divided into three main psychological states.
1: Those who regret terrorism. 2: Those who are a little confused. 3: Those who have no regrets at all.

Before ''MIDORI'', Harada planned an anime based on the ''United Red Army'' prison notes.
Although Harada is a denier of armed revolution, he believes that when making a movie, it is more effective to use radical people as motifs.

Harada was interested in the following points.
The ''United Red Army'' lived a ''semi-legal'' life somewhere between legal and illegal. They moved from one secret hideout to another.
One of the causes of death of the members executed at Asama Sanso was ''death of despair''. Rather than directly killing the members who betrayed them, they tie them up in the open and leave them there for several days. Then they die in despair, thinking, ''I will never be rescued.''

Harada was especially interested in the autobiography of female member Hiroko Nagata.
Nagata developed a romantic interest in her member, but she was heartbroken. She was also the victim of rape by her peers.
Then, perhaps out of a woman's intuition, she begins to have doubts about her group's terrorism. However, as long as you are in a group, you cannot escape.
Harada was interested in the slight hesitation and feelings of the opposite sex in extreme situations.
However, this project was never realized because depicting the inner workings of an armed revolutionary group would not solve various social and political problems.

”Juroku no bohyo(16 grave markers)”(by Hiroko Nagata /1982/Sairyusha)