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Blind Beast

Sci-Fi & Horror • Drama, UR

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). An artist's model, Aki (Mako Midori), is abducted by Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), a blind sculptor who intends to use her to craft a sculpture of the perfect female form. At first defiant, Aki 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.

Tags
Sexual relations and practices
Cast
Eiji Funakoshi Michio Sofu
Mako Midori Aki Shima
Noriko Sengoku Shino, mother
Crew
Yasuzo Masumura director

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