Masao Adachi

AKA:
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1939-05-13

Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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.

Crew Roles

Ecstasy of the Angels
Writer
Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Writer
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Writer
Birth Control Revolution
Writer
Birth Control Revolution
Director
Galaxy
Director
Galaxy
Writer
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Director
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Writer
Gushing Prayer
Director
Prisoner/Terrorist
Director
Prisoner/Terrorist
Writer
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Writer
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Director
Secret Flower
Screenplay
The Love Robots
Screenplay
Sex Play
Director
Female Student Guerrilla
Writer
Female Student Guerrilla
Director
A Woman in Revolt
Director
Artist of Fasting
Editor
Endless Waltz
Writer
Closed Vagina
Director
Rice Bowl
Director
Sex Zone
Director
Sex Zone
Screenplay
Perfect Education 6
Screenplay
REVOLUTION+1
Director
REVOLUTION+1
Writer
Running in Madness, Dying in Love
Screenplay
Sex Jack
Screenplay
A Womb to Let
Writer
Artist of Fasting
Director
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Editor
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
Writer
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Producer
Artist of Fasting
Screenplay
New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon
Writer
Abortion
Art Direction
Abortion
Original Music Composer
Abortion
Screenplay
Abortion
Director
A Woman in Revolt
Screenplay
Sex Family
Writer
Backside of 17
Screenplay
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Writer
Kôkôsei burai hikae
Screenplay
The Embryo Hunts in Secret
Assistant Director
The Hateful Beast
Screenplay
Love Technique 2
Screenplay
Violated Angels
Screenplay
Escape
Writer
Escape
Director
Lettre vidéo
Director
Secret High School Girl: After School Activity
Writer
The Woman Who Wanted to Die
Screenplay
Vagabond of Sex
Screenplay
Torn Love Affair
Screenplay
Nikutai no yokkyu
Screenplay
The Embryo Hunts in Secret
Screenplay
Sex Crimes
Screenplay
Sex Play
Screenplay
Galaxy
Producer
Gushing Prayer
Writer
Closed Vagina
Producer
The Orgy
Screenplay
Shinjuku Mad
Screenplay
Blood Is Redder Than the Sun
Assistant Director
Abnormal Blood
Writer
Violent Virgin
Screenplay
The Embryo Hunts in Secret
Original Music Composer
Love Technique: Kamasutra
Screenplay
Kyô mo mata sugita
Director
Kyô mo mata sugita
Screenplay
Kyô mo mata sugita
Producer
The Ugly One
Writer
Dark Story of a Sex Crime: Phantom Killer
Screenplay
Heaven and Hell
Writer
Embryo
Original Story
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {28}

2022-04-08 8.2

Tonbi

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed af ...
Genre :Drama

The February Army #1

1972-03-11 5.3

Ecstasy of the Angels

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

Narrator

2013-09-13 5

The Ugly One

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 being written and rewritten, open to interpretation. Wh ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

Chief of Guards

1968-02-02 7.4

Death by Hanging

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2023-06-10 0

TOCKA

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 life insurance money. But suicide is not covered by ...
Genre :

Policeman

1968-03-30 5.6

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1971-01-01 4.3

Secret Flower

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

Narrator (voice)

1975-01-31 5.2

A.K.A. Serial Killer

AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer Norio Nagayama. An indictment of media sensationali ...
Genre :Crime, Documentary

Self

2011-08-25 6.7

Children of the Revolution

Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting f ...
Genre :Documentary

Executionier

1966-12-13 0

Season of Betrayal

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

2022-07-02 0

シネマスコーレを解剖する。　コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ

Genre :Documentary

Hitman 2

1967-02-21 1

Black Narcissus of Lust

Pinku from 1967. ...
Genre :

Village man

1969-07-22 6.4

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 house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2006-12-26 0

Prisoners

Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist" ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2016-09-30 0

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 manga, but his contributions aren't just limited to the world of print media. Featuring co ...
Genre :Documentary, Animation

Senda

2017-01-28 0

Random Lives

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which affects those who survive it, fis ...
Genre :Drama

Himself

2002-06-14 1

Under the Skin

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2011-07-08 6.1

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 Philippe Grandrieux, It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve is a portrait of Masa ...
Genre :Documentary

1968-05-01 0

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo b ...
Genre :Crime

1964-02-14 0

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is a ...
Genre :

Himself

2004-09-27 6.2

Pink Ribbon

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pink ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2018-01-01 0

Bruno & Bettina

Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a member of the Japanese New Left that shifted from being a filmmaker to a guerrilla fighter. In 1974, he j ...
Genre :Documentary

1971-09-29 6.2

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 Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palesti ...
Genre :Documentary

Adachi (Peddler)

1967-08-06 2

Abnormal Blood

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches ...
Genre :History, Drama

Himself

2011-07-08 6.6

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 Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave up images, the other a young woman whose identity- ...
Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1966-07-01 6

The Embryo Hunts in Secret

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Horror

2012-01-01 0

Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine

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 understand why some Japanese students decided to dedic ...
Genre :

2025-10-03 0

The Bird Is Calling

Yuji and Yuriko's peaceful life shatters when an old diary belonging to Yuji's great-uncle Sadaichi, who died in the war, is discovered. The pages are full of an obsession with life... and one strange ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Horror