Masao Adachi Movies

Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual...

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...

After 15-year-old Yasuko has her first orgasm with a teacher, she and her disillusioned group of friends decide to turn to prostitution to gain a...

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

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

Pinku from 1972.

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

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

A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to...

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the...

Pinku from 1968

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...

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

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...

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...

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....