Direction: Masao Adachi

Direction Masao Adachi

Plot During the fall of 1968, four cases of murder took place in four cities with the same weapon. The film records the areas traversed by the murderer in his lifetime.

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Ukan Abeta · Shoichi Honda · Juri Ihata · Hiroko Ito

Plot A man appears and sits on the street. A boy, interested in the man sitting on the street, talks to the man, but the man doesn't say anything. The man...

Direction Masao Adachi · Kôji Wakamatsu

Plot It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan’s context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There,...

Direction Masao Adachi · Haruhiko Arai

Cast Michio Akiyama · Yûji Aoki · Masaaki Hiraoka · Susumu Iwabuchi

Plot High-school students Yasuko, Yôichi, Kôichi and Bill indulge in group sex to liberate themselves from a corrupt adult society. Yasuko is driven by the encouragement of her peers to feel...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Aratsu Sahei

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Hanaue Akira

Plot n August 1967, Japan’s Art Theatre Guild opened the Theatre Scorpio (Sasoriza), an exhibition space dedicated to underground films and live performances, in the basement of its Art Theatre Shinjuku...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Hatsuo Yamatani · Rika Mizuki · Kaori Aihara · Michiyo Igawa

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Michio Akiyama · Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Panta · Taka Okubo · Jôji Kajiwara

Plot During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions and he is captured. Exposed to maltreatment in prison he slowly loses his...

Direction Masao Adachi · Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Michio Akiyama · Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu · Yukiko Manabe · Natsu Nakajima

Plot The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play“ rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. As they loaf...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Takeda Hiroshi · Kimura Kyoko · Muraoka Kumiko

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Soran Tamoto

Plot About the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Reiko Ensho · Hiroko Fuji · Hiroshi Jô · Noriko Kaede

Plot 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 artificial wombs.

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Teruko Amano · Hiroshi Imaizumi · Atsushi Yamatoya

Plot Inheritance problems drive a succession of violence. Meanwhile the contrast between the indecisive man and the independent women exhibit new possibilities for female representation in pink films. Masao Adachi's low-budget...

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Mikio Terashima · Kozue Hidori · Atsushi Yamatoya · Kuniko Masuda