Masao Adachi Movies

"In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere...

Pinku from 1972.

Pinku from 1968

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

This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanese leftist activism in the 60s and the 70s, to...

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

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...

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

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.

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,...

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

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

A salesman is looking in the city of Tokyo for his lost son. But he becomes increasingly angry at the young and radical hippies, who are not the...

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

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

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

Short student film by Masao Adachi.

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

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