Cinema of ActualityDuring the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the "season of politics," the era was filled with widely covered dramatic events from hijackings and hostage crises to student protests. This season of politics was, Yuriko Furuhata argues, the season of image politics. Well known directors, including Oshima Nagisa, Matsumoto Toshio,