The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masao Adachi who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu and directed a series of avantgarde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachis most infamous film the agitprop documentary Red ArmyPFLP Declaration of World War which he codirected with Wakamatsu Soon after Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations
