Masao Adachi Movies

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.

Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for...

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer....

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal...

Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which...

Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group...

Mixing memory and dreams, this film centers on a man who becomes lost within the Möbius strip of his own consciousness.

A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make...

In the Edo era, two man arrive in a village and engage in criminal activity. While one of them becomes successful and rich, the other gets betrayed...

A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on...

Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"

A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave...

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social...

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.

The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain...

Pinku from 1972.

First Half: Kamasutra in three dimensions. Second Half: Report-movie-like short story.

Pinku from 1967.

The manager of a supermarket is flooded with huge financial problems. Driven by desperation, she commits a series of murders.

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji...