Satori Screen: Blind Beast (18)

“A continually astonishing piece of work” – SFX Magazine

Satori Screen presents a rare UK cinema screening of a classic Japanese psychosexual horror thriller, based on a story by writer Edogawa Rampo.

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.

This screening will include an introduction from Satori Screen’s Peter Munford.

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