Even within Japan, for decades it was almost impossible to see Masao Adachi's films, only a handful of them were distributed on home video and very little was written about him outside the country. Now that it is possible to see his bold works and appreciate the delicate balance of gender tropes, political nuances, experiments in film theory and an ideological core, this volume recovers his vision of cinema in the form of his own texts, interviews, essays by others about his work and the testimony of two important Japanese directors with whom he came to work and present at Cannes: Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima.