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Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

Posted By: Someonelse
Date: 21 Nov 2014 13:44:00
Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

Blind Beast (1969)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:24:01 | 4,28 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama, Art-house

Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Stars: Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku

An intense, no-holds-barred exploration of perversion, art and sado-masochism. A blind sculptor, with the aid of his mother, kidnaps and imprisons a young fashion model as a muse for his efforts to sculpt the perfect form. Set in a Dali-esque artist's studio covered in sculptures of giant eyeballs, over-sized limbs and assorted body parts, this incredibly visually inventive tale of madness and sexual obsession powers to a climax prefiguring Oshima's In The Realm of the Senses while recalling Franju's Eyes Without A Face. A call-to-arms for Outsider Art.

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Blind Beast like most of Yasuzo Masumura’s other films is a dialog driven piece. Despite relying heavily on dialog the film is filled with exquisite visuals like Michio’s workshop which is a room that is cover on its walls with various body parts and a full woman’s torso that he sculpted lays in the middle of the room. Another interesting stylistic choice the director makes is at the beginning of the film when he shows photographs of Aki in black and white before settling into color for the rest of the film. The black and white texture of these photos’s set them apart from the rest of the films look. Yasuzo Masumura cleverly through out the film perfectly mixes his lighting between light and shadows that give the film an unreal dream like look that heightens the actors’ expressions.

Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

The score is a mix of chamber and medieval music that add to films gothic feel. Reportedly Eiji Funakoshi who plays Michio by visiting a school for the blind and the end result is miraculous as he has you believing he is really blind. Mako Midori is equally impressive as Aki as she goes from a seductress to a victim effortlessly. In the film Michio’s mother helps him with the kidnapping and keeping the girl prisoner which leads one to believe that she is leading her son to believe that his behavior is acceptable. Tension builds when Michio’s mother becomes jealous of her sons affection for Aki which only furthers to push the two apart. In the film Michio points out that a blind mans strongest sense is touch and it is exactly this sense that betrays him the most in the end. Blind Beast ends with a twist that is appropriately prophetic in its final judgment on the films two leads Aki and Michio. Blind Beast is an amazing film and Yasuzo Masumura’s greatest achievement as a filmmaker.
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Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

One of the most fascinatingly freakish of all the big screen adaptations of the works of Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo is Moju, a.ka.The Blind Beast. This outrageous film from 1969 was directed by the criminally underrated Yasuzo Masumura, director of such powerful melodramas as Kisses (Kuchizuke, 1957), Giants and Toys (Kyojin To Gangu, 1958), the lesbian love-triangle Manji (1964), and Red Angel (Akai Tenshi, 1966). Masumura's early work and essays on film in the late 50s spurred a young Nagisa Oshima and his peers at Shochiku Studios to radically reconfigure the nation's traditional cinema, giving birth to the Japanese New Wave of the 60s in the process.

Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

Though the plot bears some similarity to John Fowles' powerful novel The Collector, published in 1963 and rather listlessly adapted for the big screen by William Wyler in 1965 with Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar as captor and captured, Moju is based on a rather grotesque tale by Rampo first serialised in the Asahi national newspaper between 1931 and 1932.

Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

The original story featured Michio, a psychopathic blind sculpture who under the guise of an itinerant masseur roams the land in search of suitable female body parts to construct into the perfect sensual sculpture. In Masumura's hands the plot is stripped down to its basic atoms. There is only one victim here to form the basis of the sculptor's latest work, a shapely young model called Aki, abducted in the initial scenes. The rest of the action takes place in one location, the artist's cavernous studio in the basement of a secluded house, each wall covered in biomorphic swells representing parts of the female anatomy - breasts, eyes, lips. The studio is dominated by two recumbent sculptures of male and female nudes.

Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

Masumura depicts this claustrophobic milieu with an edgy, hallucinogenic intensity that borders on hyper-realism to explore the cloying, all-encompassing relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits. As Michio maps out the curves of his subject in his attempt to reproduce her in clay, the two engage in a continuous stream of dialogue, and as Aki's fear for her capture turns to respect, she eventually reciprocates to his intense tactile fixation on her body. The two enter into a strange sado-masochistic relationship that, in a squirm-inducing finale reminiscent of Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Koriida, 1976) and Jennifer Lynch's Boxing Helena (1993), culminates in each of the model's limbs being severed from her torso.

Blind Beast (1969) [ReUp]

Given the rather static nature of the mise-en-scиne, Masumura must be admired for stretching out such an elementary idea to feature length, yet the most overwhelming impression of this film is its deliciously overwrought visual style, conjuring up such a vivid and endlessly interesting, self-contained cinematic world inside the claustrophobic confines of Michio's studio. Yes, Moju really is as outlandish as it sounds, and must rank as one of the most powerful and potently disturbing horror films ever conceived. For anyone with any interest in the horror/fantasy genre, this is quite simply mandatory viewing. A classic.
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