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Masao Adachi’s first new film in six years that secretly started filming at the end of August. About the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Revolution+1.2022.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 14 min
Size: 	5.89 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/8F15359015B7E94/Revolution+1.2022.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles: English (hardcoded)

The post Masao Adachi – Revolution+1 (2022) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing his crimes. Their result is this provocative, rarely-screened meditation on geography and society.

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In 1969, Adachi, who had already made a number of important films, led a group of people, who were all in the vanguard of filmmaking in Japan, in making a film called “AKA. Serial Killer.” The camera eye mostly shows various landscapes across Japan, following the itinerary of a young informal worker, Norio Nagayama, who ended up committing a series of shootings in these places. Then a relatively known film director made a narrative film about Nagayama’s miserable upbringing and tried to make a statement about the social inequality that was supposed to have been responsible for his crime (The film is “Naked Nineteen -Hadaka no Jyuukyuu-sai-” directed by Kaneto Shindo, 1970). Meanwhile this group decided to pursue a totally different approach, which, precisely speaking, is neither a story film nor documentary. It is an attempt to see exactly what Nagayama saw along his itinerary looking for a better job, a better place, which never existed. The resulting film shows a series of terrains that have been transformed to the effect of losing genius loci or the singularities of place and became a series of postcard-like landscapes. This was the most straightforward critique of capital’s “real subsumption,” namely, the overall commodification of the everyday, which corresponds to the critique of “spectacle” by Guy Debord (The key word used in the debate provoked by the film was fukei in Japanese, which is commonly translated as “landscape.” As opposed to that, the music critic Yuzo Sakuramoto suggested to use “spectacle.”).

1.47GB | 1h 26m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/19A3EBE665B7FA2/Masao_Adachi_-_Ryakusho_renzoku_shasatsuma_AKA_Serial_Killer_(1969).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Masao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents. Two classmates who discovered their plan decide to join the rebellion. They steal all the graduation certificates, use their charms to get weapons from Jieitai soldiers and establish their base in the mountain.

1.10GB | 1h 11m | 700×276 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/17734A0C1E754E9/Student.Guerilla.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
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https://fikper.com/M4V090CTrK/Student.Guerilla.1969.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv.html

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masao Adachi – Jogakusei gerira AKA Student Guerilla (1969) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan’s context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution. Being a fusion of intense agitation and the ‘landscape theory’ approach inherited from “Aka. Serial Killer,” the film was conceived as a new form of news report, and was discussed in synchronicity with J-L Godard’s Dziga Vertov Group and the revolutionary films of Latin America, transcending geographical distances. In order to negate the conventional idea of a film screening, the Red Bus Film Screening Troop was organized and the film screening was acted out nation-wide. The English and French subtitled versions were produced and the film has been screened internationally, including in Palestine. The film is important in the sense that it was an embodiment of the collaboration between Japanese filmmakers and Palestinians in that era, and also as a historical document of Palestine, where constant bombings made it hardly possible for Palestinians to possess their own images.

934MB | 1 h 9 min | 710×532 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/79C98F0A801D7DC/Red_Army-PFLP_-_Declaration_of_World_War_(1971).mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu – Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen AKA Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
A young prostitute tries to understand why she suffers from melancholy and benumbed feelings. Against a background of sexual liberation and political subversion, this latest libertine work by radical film director M. Adachi is one of the very few existing feminist erotic films. Masao Adachi’s personality and films deserve careful consideration. Relatively unknown as yet to Western audiences, he happens to be one of the most radical film-makers around in recent years. Gushing Prayer, shows the influence of Koji Wakamatsu, another enfant terrible of Japanese cinema whom Adachi assisted on many films. Gushing Prayer does not hesitate to show the resentments and dissatisfactions of someone who ought to be nothing more than an object of fantasies. Highly pertinent, with a bold avant-garde style, he sets the record straight as far as the sexual desires of supposedly liberated Japanese women are concerned. One of the rare feminist films of the 70’s, it audaciously evokes sexual liberation and political subversion.

1.11GB | 1h 13mn | 1029×438 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/983B1158831E3E2/Gushing_Prayer_(1971)_–_Masao_Adachi,_Haruhiko_Arai.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English,Italian (Muxed)

The post Masao Adachi & Haruhiko Arai – Funshutsu kigan – 15-sai no baishunfu AKA Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Politically-motivated Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi’s first feature in over three decades tells the tale of an imprisoned terrorist who is forced to confront his ideological convictions head-on after failing in his mission and being subjected to gross treatment while held as a detainee. “M” was one of three terrorists involved in a suicide attack on a high-profile airport. Unfortunately for “M,” his grenade failed to detonate. Immediately captured and thrown in prison, “M” gradually loses his grip on reality as a result of his maltreatment, and begins to question the ideas that drove him to attempt the ultimate sacrifice. Inspired by the true-life story of Japanese Red Army member Kozo Okamoto, who was jailed by Israeli soldiers after perpetrating the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre, Adachi’s film isn’t concerned with the details of the actual event but the manner in which man can be driven to extremes by a blinding belief in political dogma, and the ways in which solitary confinement can draw those beliefs out of the darkness for closer examination.

1.57GB | 1 h 52 min | 849×478 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CC3F804AA2E5E27/Prisoner_-_Terrorist.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masao Adachi – Yûheisha – terorisuto AKA Prisoner / Terrorist (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDB says:
A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.

1.18GB | 1h 15m | 700×364 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/692FAD268F713FA/Abortion.1966.VHSRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Masao Adachi – Datai AKA Abortion (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.