10/18: Blind Beast

Yasuzo Masumura's Blind Beast is a staggering example of Japanese pinku eiga cinema, a "pink film," part of the wave of sexploitation movies that swept over Japanese theaters in the late 60s. Of course, Masumura's take on this genre, which was often nothing more than soft porn, is as highly idiosyncratic and stylishly executed as anything in his filmography. The blind sculptor Michio (Eiji