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Masao Adachi (足立正生 Adachi Masao, born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter and director who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Most Popular Masao Adachi Trailers
Total trailers found: 72
The Love Robots Trailer (1966)
01 July 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 degeneration of our species.
Birth Control Revolution Trailer (1967)
21 February 1967
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 during intercourse.
The Bird Is Calling Trailer (2025)
03 October 2025
Yuji and Yuriko's peaceful life shatters when an old diary belonging to Yuji's great-uncle Sadaichi, who died in the war, is discovered.
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan Trailer (1964)
14 February 1964
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan.
Sex Zone Trailer (1968)
01 August 1968
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 documentary recounting the incident in monotone.
The Orgy Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
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.
Children of the Revolution Trailer (2011)
25 August 2011
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 and the Japanese Red Army.
Abortion Trailer (1966)
01 November 1966
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 artificial wombs.
Kôkôsei burai hikae Trailer (1972)
26 November 1972
Based on manga by Kazuo Koike and Keiji Yoshitani.
Bruno & Bettina Trailer (2018)
01 January 2018
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 being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter.
Secret High School Girl: After School Activity Trailer (1973)
02 March 1973
A banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko.
Perfect Education 6 Trailer (2004)
18 September 2004
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs.
A Woman in Revolt Trailer (1970)
01 August 1970
The manager of a supermarket is flooded with huge financial problems. Driven by desperation, she commits a series of murders.
Dark Story of a Sex Crime: Phantom Killer Trailer (1969)
01 July 1969
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 connection with them, he awakens dark feelings that will drive him to commit violent crimes after his first sexual experiences.
Sex Crimes Trailer (1968)
17 February 1968
Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.
Death by Hanging Trailer (1968)
02 February 1968
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.
The Embryo Hunts in Secret Trailer (1966)
01 July 1966
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.
Sex Family Trailer (1971)
12 December 1971
A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal with the father dominating his family sexually and violently.
Embryo Trailer (2010)
15 October 2010
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 them change their point views on life and politics.
Tonbi Trailer (2022)
08 April 2022
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura).
The Woman Who Wanted to Die Trailer (1971)
01 April 1971
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, who knew each other already for ten years.
Pink Ribbon Trailer (2004)
27 September 2004
Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga).
Ecstasy of the Angels Trailer (1972)
11 March 1972
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Three Resurrected Drunkards Trailer (1968)
30 March 1968
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan.
Sex Jack Trailer (1970)
03 May 1970
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 in sexual activities with a girl who appears unhappy and perhaps unwilling, having had the misfortune of getting involved with them.
The Hateful Beast Trailer (1970)
14 December 1970
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 and ends up in prison, burning for revenge.
Violated Angels Trailer (1967)
01 March 1967
Based on the factual case of a young man who broke into a nurses' home in Chicago, mutilating and killing several of the inmates, Wakamatsu's film is a precise, sad delineation of a particular aspect of masculine sexual consciousness.
Running in Madness, Dying in Love Trailer (1969)
22 July 1969
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer.
Vagabond of Sex Trailer (1967)
12 September 1967
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 Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.
Abnormal Blood Trailer (1967)
06 August 1967
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even be traced back to the Edo era.
Go, Go Second Time Virgin Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
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.
Prisoners Trailer (2006)
26 December 2006
Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief Trailer (1969)
15 February 1969
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.
Secret Flower Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach.
Escape Trailer (2025)
15 March 2025
In 2024, Kirishima Satoshi, a wanted member of the East Asian Anti-Japan Armed Front, passed away after he gave his own name at a hospital.
Sexual Play Trailer (1969)
24 February 1969
A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles.
Rice Bowl Trailer (1961)
22 November 1961
Overripe with psychosexual poetry and stark, oneiric rituals, Adachi's filmmaking debut, made while he was still an undergraduate, counts among the more resonant accomplishments of the now famous Nihon University Film Club.
A Womb to Let Trailer (1968)
01 March 1968
A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom.
Galaxy Trailer (1967)
11 August 1967
Mixing memory and dreams, this film centers on a man who becomes lost within the Möbius strip of his own consciousness.
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images Trailer (2011)
08 July 2011
A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave up images, the other a young woman whose identity-less existence forbade keeping images of her own life.
New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon Trailer (1969)
30 January 1969
A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family.
Gushing Prayer Trailer (1971)
04 August 1971
After 15-year-old Yasuko has her first orgasm with a teacher, she and her disillusioned group of friends decide to turn to prostitution to gain a better understanding of what emotions truly are.
Artist of Fasting Trailer (2016)
27 February 2016
A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause.
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw Trailer (2004)
31 October 2004
A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.
TOCKA Trailer (2023)
10 June 2023
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 life insurance money.
A.K.A. Serial Killer Trailer (1975)
31 January 1975
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama.
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War Trailer (1971)
29 September 1971
On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance.
Violent Virgin Trailer (1969)
01 April 1969
A bunch of young hipsters kidnaps a loving couple and keeps them trapped in a barren landscape. To the sounds of free jazz they are performing various experiments with the couple.
Under the Skin Trailer (2002)
14 June 2002
A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others.
Endless Waltz Trailer (1995)
07 October 1995
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
REVOLUTION+1 Trailer (2023)
11 March 2023
Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization.
Heaven and Hell Trailer (1999)
23 October 1999
A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen.
Prisoner/Terrorist Trailer (2007)
02 February 2007
During a militant attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leading to him being captured and held indefinitely in prison.
Random Lives Trailer (2017)
28 January 2017
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, e
Closed Vagina Trailer (1963)
03 November 1963
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 the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty.
Female Student Guerrilla Trailer (1969)
06 September 1969
Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents.
