Masao Adachi
Birthday: 1939-05-13
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Tonbi
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (late...
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Ecstasy of the Angels
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and se...
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The Ugly One
Adashi, ex-member of the Japanese Red Army, narrates a story taking place in Beirut. The melancholy ...
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Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorit...
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TOCKA
Shoji runs a store in a desolate town in northern Japan. After the death of his wife, he longs to en...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority w...
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Secret Flower
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet...
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A.K.A. Serial Killer
AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan in the 19...
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Children of the Revolution
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world re...
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Season of Betrayal
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow pho...
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Running in Madness, Dying in Love
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides...
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The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka
The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to ear...
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Random Lives
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, ...
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Under the Skin
A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adac...
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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 fil...
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with...
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Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacte...
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Pink Ribbon
Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of so...
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Bruno & Bettina
Masao Adachi, the author and director of experimental works and pinku-eiga in the 1960s, was a membe...
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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao ...
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Abnormal Blood
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same l...
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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 st...
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The Embryo Hunts in Secret
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjec...
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Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine
This is a documentary produced for Al Jazeera Documentary by May Shigenobu. May revisits the Japanes...
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The Bird Is Calling
Yuji and Yuriko's peaceful life shatters when an old diary belonging to Yuji's great-uncle Sadaichi,...
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