Masao Adachi
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Known For:Writing
Birthday:1939-05-13
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Tonbi (2022)
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed...

Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.

The Ugly One (2013)
Adashi, ex-member of the Japanese Red Army, narrates a story taking place in Beirut. The melancholy of war, the pain of disillusionment. A story...

Death by Hanging (1968)
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

TOCKA (2023)
Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life so that his daughter will receive his...

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

Secret Flower (1971)
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...

A.K.A. Serial Killer (1975)
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer...

Children of the Revolution (2011)
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...

Season of Betrayal (1966)
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.

Black Narcissus of Lust (1967)
Pinku from 1967.

Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
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....

Prisoners (2006)
Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"

The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka (2016)
The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

Random Lives (2017)
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a...

Under the Skin (2002)
A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji...

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi (2011)
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...

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the...

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan (1964)
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art...

Pink Ribbon (2004)
Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination...

Bruno & Bettina (2018)
Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from...

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)
On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction...

Abnormal Blood (1967)
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of...

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images (2011)
A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave...

The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and...

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)

Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw (2004)

New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon (1969)
