Masao Adachi

Death by Hanging

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a...

Tonbi

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by...

Ecstasy of the Angels

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decade...

The Bird Is Calling

Yuji and Yuriko's peaceful life shatters when an old diary belonging to Yuji's great-uncle Sadaichi, who died i...

Pink Ribbon

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore porn...

Abnormal Blood

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of d...

The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy m...

Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Leb...

TOCKA

Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to end his life...

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images

A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Ad...

Running in Madness, Dying in Love

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the hou...

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is loo...

A.K.A. Serial Killer

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profil...

Children of the Revolution

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

The Embryo Hunts in Secret

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to vari...

Prisoners

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

Black Narcissus of Lust

Pinku from 1967.

Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine

This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanese leftist a...

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi

The first in a planned series of films about radical filmmakers by film critic Nicole Brenez and filmmaker Phil...

Secret Flower

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

Season of Betrayal

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

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair

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

Bruno & Bettina

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Ja...

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The Ugly One

Adashi, ex-member of the Japanese Red Army, narrates a story taking place in Beirut. The melancholy of war, the...

Random Lives

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

Under the Skin

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wa...

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happenin...