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Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan's foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).
An artist's model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted, and awakens in a dark warehouse studio whose walls are decorated with outsized women's body parts – eyes, lips, legs and breasts – and dominated by two recumbent giant statues of male and female nudes. Her kidnapper introduces himself as Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor whom she had witnessed previously at an exhibition in which she featured intently caressing a statue of her naked torso. Michio announces his intention of using her to sculpt the perfect female form. At first defiant, she eventually succumbs to his intense fixation on her body and finds herself drawn into his sightless world, in which touch is everything.
Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish intensity.
Special Features
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new audio commentary by Asian cinema scholar Earl Jackson
- Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Blind Beast: Masumura the Supersensualist, a brand new visual essay by Japanese literature and visual studies scholar Seth Jacobowitz
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
- Arrow Video
- 84 mins approx
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Yasuzô Masumura
- Eiji Funakoshi
- Mako Midori
English
- 1969
- B
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Arrow Films
Blind Beast is a grotesque portrait of the bizarre relationship between a blind sculptor and his captive muse, adapted from a short story from Japan's foremost master of the macabre, Edogawa Rampo (Horrors of Malformed Men, The Black Lizard, Caterpillar).
An artist's model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted, and awakens in a dark warehouse studio whose walls are decorated with outsized women's body parts – eyes, lips, legs and breasts – and dominated by two recumbent giant statues of male and female nudes. Her kidnapper introduces himself as Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor whom she had witnessed previously at an exhibition in which she featured intently caressing a statue of her naked torso. Michio announces his intention of using her to sculpt the perfect female form. At first defiant, she eventually succumbs to his intense fixation on her body and finds herself drawn into his sightless world, in which touch is everything.
Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish intensity.
Special Features
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new audio commentary by Asian cinema scholar Earl Jackson
- Newly filmed introduction by Japanese cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Blind Beast: Masumura the Supersensualist, a brand new visual essay by Japanese literature and visual studies scholar Seth Jacobowitz
- Original Trailer
- Image Gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
- Arrow Video
- 84 mins approx
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Yasuzô Masumura
- Eiji Funakoshi
- Mako Midori
English
- 1969
- B
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What a Supremely Shocking Film
Here's a movie full of great horror leaning psychodrama, incredible production design bordering on the surreal, and incredibly provocative questions exploring sex, art, power, pleasure, purpose, and the deeper dynamics of human relationships. And talk about a truly amazing, shocking finale that elevates it all to even more dizzying heights of transgressive storytelling and filmmaking. Yasuzo Masumura is definitely turning into a new favorite director, and even if Blind Beast is a less serious or significant venture than the other two films I've seen from him, it was a great and wild experience. My god do I love wild Japanese movies!
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Innovative high-sensitivity terry.
I had no idea it existed until Arrow released it. Even though I'm Japanese! Older Japanese productions, or more specifically pre-1970s minority productions, are now out of date, lurking in the shadows and no longer making their appearance on the front page. Of course, they might have been seen normally from the mid-'80s, when VHS was in its heyday, to the video upheaval of the '90s. But even in those days, the mainstream productions were made by major production companies and probably lurked in the shadows, out of sight. Hidden masterpieces are now generally from abroad. This film is one of them. Although it is now available on DVD, the picture quality is, needless to say, outstandingly clear on Blu-ray. There is nothing to say about the colour, grain or texture. If only the bonus features had Japanese subtitles, it would be perfect. Thank you for providing us with a wonderful treasure. I want to treasure it because Japanese marketers are slow and the bonus tracks are poor and expensive.
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