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.

Filmography

• 2026Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo
• 2025Escape — Director, Writer
• 2025The Bird Is Calling
• 2023REVOLUTION+1 — Director, Writer
• 2023TOCKA
• 2022Tonbi
• 2022シネマスコーレを解剖する。　コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
• 2017Random Lives — Senda
• 2016Artist of Fasting — Editor, Director, Screenplay
• 2013The Ugly One — Narrator, Writer
• 2012Stars of Orion: Japanese Martyrs for Palestine
• 2011Lettre vidéo — Director
• 2010Embryo — Original Story
• 2007Prisoner/Terrorist — Director, Writer
• 2004Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw — Writer
• 2004Perfect Education 6 — Screenplay
• 1999Heaven and Hell — Writer
• 1995Endless Waltz — Writer
• 1975A.K.A. Serial Killer — Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
• 1973Secret High School Girl: After School Activity — Writer
• 1972Backside of 17 — Screenplay
• 1972Ecstasy of the Angels — The February Army #1, Writer
• 1972Kôkôsei burai hikae — Screenplay
• 1971Gushing Prayer — Director, Writer
• 1971Love Technique 2 — Screenplay
• 1971Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War — Director, Writer, Editor
• 1971Secret Flower — Screenplay
• 1971Sex Family — Writer
• 1971The Woman Who Wanted to Die — Screenplay
• 1970A Woman in Revolt — Director, Screenplay
• 1970Love Technique: Kamasutra — Screenplay
• 1970Sex Jack — Screenplay
• 1970Shinjuku Mad — Screenplay
• 1970The Hateful Beast — Screenplay
• 1969Dark Story of a Sex Crime: Phantom Killer — Screenplay
• 1969Diary of a Shinjuku Thief — Writer
• 1969Female Student Guerrilla — Director, Writer
• 1969Go, Go Second Time Virgin — Writer
• 1969New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon — Writer
• 1969Running in Madness, Dying in Love — Village man, Screenplay
• 1969Sexual Play — Director, Screenplay
• 1969Violent Virgin — Screenplay
• 1968A Womb to Let — Writer
• 1968Death by Hanging — Chief of Guards
• 1968Desire of the Flesh — Screenplay
• 1968Sex Crimes — Screenplay
• 1968Sex Zone — Director, Screenplay
• 1968The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
• 1968Three Resurrected Drunkards — Policeman, Writer
• 1967Abnormal Blood — Adachi (Peddler), Writer
• 1967Birth Control Revolution — Director, Writer
• 1967Black Narcissus of Lust — Hitman 2
• 1967Galaxy — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1967The Orgy — Screenplay
• 1967Vagabond of Sex — Screenplay
• 1967Violated Angels — Screenplay
• 1966Abortion — Screenplay, Original Music Composer, Art Direction, Director
• 1966Blood Is Redder Than the Sun — Assistant Director
• 1966Season of Betrayal — Executionier
• 1966The Embryo Hunts in Secret — Narrator, Assistant Director, Screenplay, Original Music Composer
• 1966The Love Robots — Screenplay
• 1966Torn Love Affair — Screenplay
• 1964Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
• 1963Closed Vagina — Director, Producer
• 1961Bowl — Director
• 1960Kyô mo mata sugita — Director, Screenplay, Producer

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2018Bruno & Bettina — Himself
• 2016The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka — Self
• 2011Children of the Revolution — Self
• 2011It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve - Masao Adachi — Himself
• 2011The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images — Himself
• 2006Prisoners — Self
• 2004Pink Ribbon — Self
• 2002Under the Skin — Himself