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Masao Adachi (足立正生 Adachi Masao, born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter, director, actor and former Japanese Red Army member who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture .
Feb 28, 2012 · While researching the Japanese Red Army, he discovered Mr. Adachi’s films and heard about the daughter of the group’s founder, Fusako Shigenobu. Born in Lebanon, May Shigenobu lived there in ...
Sep 30, 1971 · Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen: Directed by Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu. With Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi. It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context.
After making the experimental films Bowl (1961) and Closed Vagina (1963) with the Nihon University Cinema Club, Masao Adachi joined Koji Wakamatsu’s Wakamatsu Productions as a screenwriter. While writing Wakamatsu’s “pink films” (softcore erotic films), Adachi directed his first commercial feature film, Abortion (1966).
On their way back from Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet the Japan’s Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a propaganda newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance.
Demented and visionary, Adachi-scripted, Wakamatsu-directed films such as The Embryo Hunts in Secret and Sex Jack are recognized today as pioneering dark visions of another, secret side of the post-war Japanese miracle, a dark psycho-sexual nest of repression, trauma and guilt.
Jun 10, 2024 · Two filmmakers to emerge from this red wave were Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu: a duo who built their fame by churning out low-budget pinku films. Often wacky, formally challenging, and always base, their transgressive cinema delighted the public, and pleasured many in private.
