Masao Adachi (足立正生 ''Adachi Masao'', born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter,

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, actor and former

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member who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in

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Career

Best known for his writing collaborations with directors

Kōji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...

and

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, often under the pseudonyms "Izuru Deguchi" or "De Deguchi" (出口出), he also directed a number of his own films, usually dealing with left-wing political themes. Adachi was a prominent director in the

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film movement, producing pink films alongside documentaries. He stopped making films in the early 1970s and joined the

. He resided in

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for 28 years, lending assistance to the

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until he was arrested and extradited back to Japan in 2000 due to his connections to the JRA. After being held for a year and a half he was convicted and released based on the time he had already served. Since his release, he has resumed making films. Adachi directed ''REVOLUTION+1'', a film based on the assassination of former Prime Minister

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in 2022, focusing on a fictionalized version of the suspect Tetsuya Yamagami. On 27 September, the day of Abe's state funeral, a special 50-minute version of the film was shown in small theatres across Japan. The film was to be screened at a total of 13 theatres, but one theatre cancelled its screening after receiving a series of threatening phone calls and emails. The full-length film is scheduled to be completed in November 2022.

Partial filmography

References

Bibliography

*Masao Adachi and Go Hirasawa, ''Film / Revolution'', 2003, 河出書房新社 (in Japanese). *Masao Adachi, ''Le Bus de la révolution passera bientôt près de chez toi. Ecrits sur le cinéma, la guérilla et l'avant-garde'', Rouge Profond éditeur, 2012 (in French) *Eric Baudelaire, ''The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu. Masao Adachi, and 27 years without images'', installation for the MACBA in Barcelona, 2011, text in English and Catalan, film 66 min (in English) and nine screenprints.

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