Masao Adachi Movies

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

Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization....

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 filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination...

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...

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

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

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.

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

First Half: Kamasutra in three dimensions. Second Half: Report-movie-like short story.

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...

Pinku from 1967.

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...

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

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

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

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

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...

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

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...