Masao Adachi Movies

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...

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal...

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...

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

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...

In this bizarre world of distorted human pleasures, we have come to accept the most heinous crimes against mankind as just another example of the...

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

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

Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization....

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

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...

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

Short student film by Masao Adachi.

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

Pinku from 1968

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

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...

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...

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...