Masao Adachi Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Short student film by Masao Adachi.

A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave...

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...

This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanese leftist activism in the 60s and the 70s, to...