Masao Adachi Movies

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji...

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social...

The film follows a frustrated young man who yearns to be in the company of women. If at first he seems unable to make any kind of meaningful...

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...

Based on manga by Kazuo Koike and Keiji Yoshitani.

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

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...

First Half: Kamasutra in three dimensions. Second Half: Report-movie-like short story.

Pinku from 1967.

Pinku from 1971

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

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from...