Masao Adachi
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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 13, 1939
Deathday: N/A
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Tonbi
2022-04-08
Tonbi
Overview: 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 after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-08
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Ecstasy of the Angels
1972-03-11
Ecstasy of the Angels
Overview: A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-11
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The Ugly One
2013-09-13
The Ugly One
Overview: 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. When the time comes, return to reality can only be cruel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-13
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Death by Hanging
1968-02-02
Death by Hanging
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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TOCKA
2023-06-10
TOCKA
Overview: 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 his contract, so he seeks help and meets Saki, who is also suicidal. Yoshitaka Kamada raises profound questions about life, death, and the importance of humanity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968-03-30
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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Secret Flower
1971-01-01
Secret Flower
Overview: A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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A.K.A. Serial Killer
1975-01-31
A.K.A. Serial Killer
Overview: 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 sensationalism, the film humanizes the young man by situating his crimes in the larger context of his environment.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-31
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Children of the Revolution
2011-08-25
Children of the Revolution
Overview: 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 for and what have we learned?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-25
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Season of Betrayal
1966-12-13
Season of Betrayal
Overview: A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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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
2022-07-02
シネマスコーレを解剖する。 コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-07-02
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Black Narcissus of Lust
1967-02-21
Black Narcissus of Lust
Overview: Pinku from 1967.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Running in Madness, Dying in Love
1969-07-22
Running in Madness, Dying in Love
Overview: 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 forces the young man to flee with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-22
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Prisoners
2006-12-26
Prisoners
Overview: Making-of documentary for Masao Adachi's "Prisoner/Terrorist"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-26
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The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka
2016-09-30
The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka
Overview: 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 commentary from family, friends, colleagues, and celebrity fans, Fujio Akatsuka's story is told with archival footage and animation, showcasing the life of the man who went beyond manga.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-30
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Random Lives
2017-01-28
Random Lives
Overview: 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, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Under the Skin
2002-06-14
Under the Skin
Overview: A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
2011-07-08
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi
Overview: 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 Masao Adachi, who emerged during the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s as a screenwriter for Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, and directed a series of avant-garde films that grafted radical politics to the sexploitation genre. A 1971 visit to a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) training camp while on the way back from Cannes resulted in Adachi's most infamous film, the agit-prop documentary Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War, which he co-directed with Wakamatsu. Soon after, Adachi joined a splinter cell of the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, where he stayed from 1974 until he was deported to Japan in 1997 to serve time for passport violations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
1968-05-01
The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Overview: 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 begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
1964-02-14
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
Overview: 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 an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-14
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Pink Ribbon
2004-09-27
Pink Ribbon
Overview: 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 Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-27
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Bruno & Bettina
2018-01-01
Bruno & Bettina
Overview: 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 joined the Japanese Red Army in Lebanon, which worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck met Adachi in Tokyo in 2018 and talked with him about a wide range of topics, including art, revolution, the influence of western avant-garde art and American underground; the Japanese Red Army; collaboration with secret services; the role of the Left after 1968; and the reasons for failures of leftist ideas and strategies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
1971-09-29
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Overview: 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 Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Abnormal Blood
1967-08-06
Abnormal Blood
Overview: 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 through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even be traced back to the Edo era.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-06
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The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images
2011-07-08
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images
Overview: 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-less existence forbade keeping images of her own life. Fittingly returning the image to their lives, director Eric Baudelaire places Adachi and May’s revelatory voiceover reminiscences against warm, fragile Super-8mm footage of their split milieus, Tokyo and Beirut. Grounding their wide-ranging reflections in a solid yet complex reality, Anabasis provides a richly rewarding look at a fascinating, now nearly forgotten era (in politics and cinema), reminding us of film’s own ability to portray—and influence—its landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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