Masao Adachi Movies

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

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

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...

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...

Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual...

Mishima has just committed suicide. Two couples meet by accident at an inn in the countryside, the man and the woman, now, each with a new partner,...

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

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

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

Pinku from 1971

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

Pinku from 1966

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...

Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for...

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

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

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.

Pinku from 1968

Pinku from 1972.

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty...