Screenplay: 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 Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tadanori Yokoo · Rie Yokoyama · Kei Sato · Juro Kara

Plot The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together....

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Yoshizawa · Rie Yokoyama · Yuki Arasa · Masao Adachi

Plot The movie focuses on the actions of a revolutionary movement. One faction, with a leader called October, breaks into a US weapons depot and takes cases of hand bombs. While...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Yoshizawa · Yoko Muto · Rokko Toura · Hatsuo Yamatani

Plot After taking part in a violent demonstration, a man fights with his policeman brother, ending in tragedy when the authoritarian sibling gets shot by his own wife. The man runs...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Michio Akiyama · Mimi Kozakura

Plot After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuhiko Kato · Norihiko Hashida · Osamu Kitayama · Kei Sato

Plot This riotous comedy (in colour and Scope) is a cocktail of dumb cops, desperate Koreans, and Japanese students who don't know what's hit them. It starts with the students taking...

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 Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Hatsuo Yamatani · Miharu Shima

Plot A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade....

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Shinobu Terajima · Shima Ohnishi · Keigo Kasuya · Emi Masuda

Plot If there is a filmmaker who always maintains a radical tone, that’s Koji Wakamatsu. Politically–take his politically active films, from the sixties– as well as formally. Wakamatsu settles into the...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Yuko Ejima · Makiko Harada · Akiko Hirooka · Yôko Ohno

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Juro Kara · Keiko Koyanagi · Miki Hayashi · Shoko Kido

Plot A young man breaks into a nurses' rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein. Wakamatsu's most famous film, it is based on the mass murder spree of Richard...

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 Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Eri Ashikawa · Toshiyuki Tanigawa · Miki Hayashi · Atsushi Yamatoya

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Michio Akiyama · Mizako Kaga · Tamaki Katori · Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu

Plot The story is about a group of sexually estranged revolutionaries, and aims at showing how power infiltrates anti-establishment groups, leaving their members with a deceptive freedom. The French censors disapproved...

Direction Gonzalo López

Cast Sergio Bernal · Mariona Tena · Jean Claude Ricquebourg · Ramón Garrido

Plot 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 the two of...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Kumiko Araki · Mayuko Hino · Kayoko Sugi · Maya Takagi

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 Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Yoshizawa · Miki Watari

Plot 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.