Masao Adachi Movies

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

During a militant attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leading to him being captured and held...

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

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...

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

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

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 wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The...

The film follows a frustrated young man who yearns to be in the company of women. If at first he seems unable to make any kind of meaningful...

Pinku from 1971