Masao Adachi Movies

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen...

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

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

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. The...

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

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

A highschool student who doesn't manage to sleep with girls decides to rely on rape.

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

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a...

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

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

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

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

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...