Adachi Masao
Overview of films
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AKA Serial Killer
An unusual portrait of a criminal, AKA Serial Killer barely features any faces. Shot as an antithesis to the sensationalised reporting that surroun
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Galaxy
A car crash instigates a journey into the mind of a nameless man whose subconscious stages a number of unusual encounters. Adachi Masao’s debut fea
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Sex Game
Sex and radical politics intertwine in Adachi Masao’s pink film that taps into the zeitgeist of 1960s Japan. Shot behind the barricades during a re
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Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
Foreshadowing Adachi Masao’s own decision to participate in the Japanese Red Army and the Palestinian resistance, the curious newsreel propaganda f
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Female Student Guerrilla
In protest against their graduation ceremony, five high-school students take up arms to stage a revolution. Adachi’s fifth ‘pink film’
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Bowl
Made when Adachi Masao was a student, the horror-inflected surrealist trip follows a ritual from which the protagonist finds himself unable to flee
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Artist of Fasting
Adachi Masao’s long-awaited return from hiatus is an absurdist comedy with political bite. The multilayered hypocrisies of contemporary Japan