Blind Beast
Blind Beast is a 1969 film from Japan, directed by Yasuzō Masumura, running 84 minutes. reelscum files it under pinky violence.
- Year
- 1969 · 1960s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Director
- Yasuzō Masumura
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (54/100)
- Also known as
- Warehouse
Defined in the glossary: Pinky violence
Masumura, one set, three actors, and an ending that goes much further than expected.
Yasuzo Masumura strips the erotic thriller down to three people and one set, and pushes it much further than expected. A blind sculptor kidnaps a model to be the subject of his ultimate work, and their captor-captive relationship curdles into a folie a deux that ends in genuine horror. The studio, a room lined with giant sculpted body parts, is unforgettable.
It is closer to art film than exploitation, a chamber piece about obsession and sensation that gets progressively more disturbing. Masumura controls the escalation with real precision.
Perverse, claustrophobic and unsettling. Not easily forgotten.
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