Based on Ron Hansen's 1983 novel, which is itself based upon real people and events, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford begins in 1881, on the eve of the James Gang's final train robbery, when Robert "Bob" Ford (Casey Affleck), a young gunslinger-wannabe, begs his idol, the notorious outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt), to accept him as a "sidekick."
What makes this young pastor a favorite even for hardened criminals who have defied presidential decrees and guns-for-amnesty offers from the government?
In the early 1970s, 29 members of the Red Army, which was formed by young Japanese people who wanted to start a revolution, gathered on Mount Haruna in Gunma prefecture.