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The Films of Hisayasu Satō: Volume #1 - Re-Wind / Lustmord / Love Letter In the Sand
The 1970s through 1990s saw a boom in transgressive genre filmmaking throughout Asia, but particularly in Japan where the "Pinku Eiga" became one of the most popular types of films produced in the country. With young filmmakers seizing an opportunity to hone their craft, countless soon-to-be celebrated directors created work which were more daring, unusual, and often shocking than just about any of the other genre cinema ergering across the globe. Pink Line will present exclusive new restorations of select works from key Asian erotic filmmakers, with a focus on Japan's Pinku Eiga genre.
One of the most esteemed and transgressive filmmakers ever to work in Japan's explosively popular Pink Film genre, Hisayasu Sat crafted erotic films that were both genre-defying and artfully-minded. While Sat's work is infused with horror and thriller tropes, it boasts a punk and avant-garde aesthetic singularly his own. In this debut release, Pink Line begins to explore this immense body of work with three of Sat's most outlandish and profound features, each newly and exclusively restored in 2K from their 35mm original camera negatives with newly-translated English subtitles, all under the supervision of Sat himself.
In LUSTMORD (aka Pleasure Kill), Sat commences his meditation on the fusion of sex and death. Eiji, a reclusive and awkward teenage boy, is fixated on creating a serum capable of breaking down the barrier between pleasure and pain, much to the dismay of his research physician mother. Deciding to conduct his own experiments, Eiji slips the serum to several women, but is unprepared for the horrifying results. Later remade by Sat as the straight horror feature Naked Blood, this early directing effort conjures a remarkable waking nightmare approach, as the impending threat of violence and insanity permeates every scene as it builds towards a typically cynical and cryptic conclusion.
RE-WIND (aka Celluloid Nightmare) functions as Sat's tribute to Michael Powell's masterpiece Peeping Tom. After a grisly, point-of-view snuff videotape is found in a refrigerator, a young man becomes obsessed with discovering who made it and whether or not the brutal murder was real. As he delves into Tokyo's underground video scene, his own perversions come to the fore as he grows ever closer to uncovering the shocking truth, alongside a female reporter who calls herself Crime Hunter. Fusing gruesome gore and raw sex while wryly playing with the artifice inherent to the video format, RE-WIND remains one of Sat's most powerful and impressive early works.
LOVE LETTER IN THE SAND (aka Pervert Ward: Torturing the White Uniform), is Sat crafting a noir-inspired erotic thriller, using blazing, heavily-gelled color. During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.
directed by: Hisayasu Sat
starring: Masae Abe, Sayaka Hitomi, Kiyomi It, Maya Shiraki, Yoko Fujita,
Shigeru Sasaki, Nanako Fujitani, Yui Hoshikawa
1987, 1988, 1988 / 58 min, 64 min, 61 min / 1.85:1 / Japanese DTS-HD MA 1.0
Additional info:- 2-Disc Region Free Blu-ray
- 40-page perfect bound book (limited edition only) includes essays by Ariel Esteban Cayer, Tori Potenza, and Jasper Sharp
- Reversible cover artwork
- Newly translated English subtitles
Lustmord- Commentary track with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp for Lustmord
- "Kill Kill" - an interview with director Hisayasu Sat
- "Written in Blood" - an interview with writer Taketoshi Watari
- "Walking in Circles" - a locations featurette with director Hisayasu Sat covering all three films
Re-Wind- Commentary track with film critic Simon Abrams
- "Visual Pleasure" - an interview with director Hisayasu Sat
- "Caught in the Act" - an interview with actress Kiyomi It
- "Shooting His Shot" - an interview with writer Yumeno Shiro
Love Letter in the Sand- Commentary track with film historian & author Samm Deighan
- "Medical Mayhem" - an interview with director Hisayasu Sat
- "Pretty in Pink" - an interview with filmmaker Risaku Kiridoshi
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