"Blind Beast"
1969
Directed by Yasuzo Masumura

It is certainly a lack of availability (on video), not lack of impact, that has led so many to overlook the films of iconoclastic director Yasuzo Masumura. In this, one of his most sensational and provocative productions, a blind sculptor kidnaps a model and keeps her prisoner in a shadowland of monuments to the female form. "...makes David Lynch look like Pat Boone... a wildly fetishistic, claustrophobic Japanese production...you've never seen anything like it" (Adam Groves, The Cutting Edge). Japanese with English subtitles.  86 minutes.