Masao Adachi

Born: 1939-05-13

Masao Adachi (足立正生 Adachi Masao, born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter and director who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s.


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Death by Hanging

as Chief of Guards
Released: 1968-02-02

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

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Ecstasy of the Angels

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-11

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

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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War

as uncredited
Released: 1971-09-29

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

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Tonbi

as uncredited
Released: 2022-04-08

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

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Three Resurrected Drunkards

as Policeman
Released: 1968-03-30

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

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Running in Madness, Dying in Love

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-22

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

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Bruno & Bettina

as Himself
Released: 2018-01-01

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

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Pink Ribbon

as Himself
Released: 2004-09-27

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

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Season of Betrayal

as Executionier
Released: 1966-12-13

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

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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair

as uncredited
Released: 1968-05-01

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

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A.K.A. Serial Killer

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1975-01-31

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in...

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Random Lives

as Senda
Released: 2017-01-28

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

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Secret Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-01

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

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Abnormal Blood

as Adachi (Peddler)
Released: 1967-08-06

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the...

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

as Himself
Released: 2011-07-08

A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable...

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TOCKA

as uncredited
Released: 2023-06-10

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

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Children of the Revolution

as Self
Released: 2011-08-25

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

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Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

as uncredited
Released: 1964-02-14

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

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The Ugly One

as Narrator
Released: 2013-09-13

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

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

as Himself
Released: 2011-07-08

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

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Black Narcissus of Lust

as Hitman 2
Released: 1967-02-21

Pinku from 1967.

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Under the Skin

as Himself
Released: 2002-06-14

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

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