NIGHT OF THE ANATOMICAL DOLL - Hisayasu Sato is well known for his often very weird Pinku films which include odd, disturbing fetishes and voyeuristic themes. Most probably know him for 'Naked Blood' or 'The Bedroom'. This feels like a kind of precursor to 'Naked Blood' in some ways. A scientist moves into a new apartment and quickly finds herself surrounded by weirdos, including a creep who seems to be using surveillance techniques in order to merge with her identity and a medical student who has a disturbing fixation on his fathers prosthetic hand (!) Not as graphic as '... Blood' or as warped as some of his other stuff, but really quite strange, with trippy dream sequences involving meat raining down on writhing torsos etc etc. Well worth catching, although, like much of Sato's ouvre, not very available outside of the grey market.
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