The best Masao Adachi’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Masao Adachi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Masao Adachi.
Death by Hanging
7.5/10
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Ecstasy of the Angels
6.3/10
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Running in Madness, Dying in Love
7.1/10
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Abnormal Blood
5.9/10
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.
Three Resurrected Drunkards
6.4/10
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
Random Lives
Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which affects those who survive it, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more
