Masao Adachi Movies

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

Pinku from 1968

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 brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal...

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

Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the...

A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on...

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

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...

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

Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group...

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

Pinku from 1967.

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...

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in...

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...

Pinku from 1971

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

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...

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...