Masao Adachi Movies

Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her...

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

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...

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to...

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

A small gang of revolutionary students is hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are in hiding, everyone except the thief takes turns engaging...

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

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

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

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 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...

During a suicide attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leaving him captured. Exposed to maltreatment...

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...

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

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

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

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