A.K.A. Serial Killer

A.K.A. Serial Killer
Directed byMasao Adachi
Produced byMasao Matsuda
CinematographyMasayuki Nonomura
Edited by
  • Sachiko Yamada
  • Fusako Ichimura
Music byMototeru Takagi and Masahiko Togashi[1]
Release date
  • January 31, 1975 (1975-01-31) (Japan)
[2][3]
Running time
86 minutes[2][3]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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]

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  2. ^ a b c "略称・連続射殺魔 (A.K.A. Serial Killer)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "略称・連続射殺魔 (A.K.A. Serial Killer)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.