Masao Adachi
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.
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.243 |
| Birthday | 1939-05-13 |
| Place of Birth | Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As |
2022
Tonbi
7.3/7
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...
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Tonbi
1972
Ecstasy of the Angels
5.5/26
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
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Ecstasy of the Angels
2013
The Ugly One
5/4
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...
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The Ugly One
1968
Death by Hanging
7.404/99
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.
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Death by Hanging
2023
TOCKA
0/0
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 l...
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TOCKA
1968
Three Resurrected Drunkards
5.467/15
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 develo...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
1971
Secret Flower
4/2
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...
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Secret Flower
1975
A.K.A. Serial Killer
5.2/10
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 1960s, profiling a nineteen-year-old serial killer N...
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A.K.A. Serial Killer
2011
Children of the Revolution
6.7/9
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 an...
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Children of the Revolution
1966
Season of Betrayal
0/0
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.
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Season of Betrayal
2022
シネマスコーレを解剖する。 コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
0/0
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シネマスコーレを解剖する。 コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
1967
Black Narcissus of Lust
1/1
Pinku from 1967.
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Black Narcissus of Lust
1969
Running in Madness, Dying in Love
6.4/5
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. T...
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Running in Madness, Dying in Love
2006
Prisoners
0/0
Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"
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Prisoners
2016
The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka
0/0
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...
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The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka
2017
Random Lives
0/0
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 bu...
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Random Lives
2002
Under the Skin
1/1
A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Mar...
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Under the Skin
2011
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
6.5/6
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...
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It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
1968
The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
0/0
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organizatio...
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
0/0
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spa...
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Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
2004
Pink Ribbon
6.2/4
Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination o...
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Pink Ribbon
2018
Bruno & Bettina
0/0
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...
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Bruno & Bettina
1971
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
7.1/8
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 a...
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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
1967
Abnormal Blood
2/2
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of vio...
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Abnormal Blood
2011
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images
6.6/7
A film on exile, revolution, landscapes and memory, Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May, one a filmmaker who gave...
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