Masao Adachi Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to...

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the...

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...

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...

Mishima has just committed suicide. Two couples meet by accident at an inn in the countryside, the man and the woman, now, each with a new partner,...

A banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko.

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

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen...

Pinku from 1972.

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