Masao Adachi Movies

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...

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of...

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

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

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...

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer...

A salesman is looking in the city of Tokyo for his lost son. But he becomes increasingly angry at the young and radical hippies, who are not the...

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...

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...

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

Pinku from 1967.

Based on manga by Kazuo Koike and Keiji Yoshitani.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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