Celluloid Nightmares

A film by extraordinarily prolific Japanese director Hisayasu Sato, whose work is not sufficiently well known among Polish audiences. Sato once again tests his audience’s sensitivity, serving up a spicy portion of sex, perversion, and torture. This explosive mixture takes up a lot of screen time, becoming both the means and the goal of this story, which is reminiscent of Michael Powell’s brilliant Peeping Tom. In Sato’s work, the object of his fascination is any sort of physical conjoining – whether by means of sex or violence – and, at the same time, the possibility of recording this on film. A plot intrigue intertwining a series of acts of physicality is the pretext for a demonstration of the human potential to satisfy our sensual desires. 

Patryk Tomiczek