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Masao Adachi
Born May 13, 1939 · Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (age 87)
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
The Hateful Beast · 1970The Hateful Beast
★ 4.71970
MovieDrama
In the Edo era, two man arrive in a village and engage in criminal activity. While one of them becomes successful and rich, the other gets betrayed and ends up in prison, burning for revenge. The truth changes with the viewpoint in this Wakamatsu film, which has inspired comparisons to Rashomon.
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief · 1969Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
★ 4.81969
MovieDramaComedy
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
Sex Family · 1971Sex Family
★ 4.21971
MovieDrama
A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal with the father dominating his family sexually and violently. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out.
New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon · 1969New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon
★ 5.41969
MovieThriller
A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet.
Go, Go Second Time Virgin · 1969Go, Go Second Time Virgin
★ 6.71969
MovieDramaRomance
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Perfect Education 6 · 2004Perfect Education 6
★ 4.82004
MovieDramaThriller
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the escape, he meets a girl named Akiko. He hides in her house. Later on, Fumiya and Akiko fall in love and have sex. After that, he finds that the house owner Shin kidnapped Akiko whem she was a little girl and has kept her in the house for over a decade. Fumiya is determined to take her away from Shin's brutal confinement. A battle of wills between jailer, prisoner and accidental savior begins….
Death by Hanging · 1968Death by Hanging
★ 7.51968
MovieComedyDrama
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.
Abnormal Blood · 1967Abnormal Blood
★ 5.01967
MovieHistoryDrama
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.
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