Masao Adachi Movies

Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life so that his daughter will receive his...

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...

A highschool student who doesn't manage to sleep with girls decides to rely on rape.

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Short student film by Masao Adachi.

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...

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

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

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...