The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #2 - An Aria on Gazes / Love - Zero = Infinity
Please Note: If you ordered Satô Vol.1 between September 1st - 3rd, please use coupon code SATO2 to save $6 on this release. Subscribers, please use coupon code SATO2-SUB.
This special limited edition Blu-ray comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Luke Insect), includes a 40-page perfect bound book, and is limited to 4,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.
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.
As pink film auteur Hisayasu Satô evolved as a filmmaker, he both expanded and refined his fascination with connecting elements of melancholy, violence, voyeurism, and repressed sexuality. In this second installment of THE FILMS OF HISAYASU SATÔ, Pink Line presents two of his most celebrated and also most controversial features from his prolific early 90s output, presented in new director-approved restorations from their 35mm original camera negatives.
In AN ARIA ON GAZES (aka The Bedroom), an exclusive Tokyo club offers a safe haven for its clients to anonymously indulge in perverse and deeply personal erotic fantasies as the lines between reality and imagination become increasingly opaque - and dangerous. One of Satô’s most lyrical and structurally experimental films, which effortlessly blends moments of tenderness and brutality, centers on a stirring performance by Kiyomi Itô (Muscle) and an appearance by real-life cannibal Issei Sagawa.
In LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY, Satô’s focus on bonding and connection through voyeurism hits a fever pitch in this simultaneously unsettling and romantic saga of two disturbed outsiders finding unexpectedly kindred spirits in each other. Takashi, a lonely voyeur whose feverish desire for companionship borders on stalking, is hired by a doctor to follow his mysterious young wife. But as they each grow increasingly aware of the other’s presence, violent desires also begin to erupt within them in this fatalistic piece, blurring intimacy and blood ritual.
directed by: Hisayasu Satô
starring: Kiyomi Itô, Momori Asano, Kyôko Nakamura, Issei Sagawa, Takeshi Itô, Ryûmei Homura
1992, 1994 / 127 min (combined) / 1.85:1 / Japanese 1.0 Mono
Additional info:
- Region Free Blu-ray
- 40-page perfect-bound book (limited edition only) includes essays by Jasper Sharp, Hayley Scanlon, and Filipe Furtado
- Reversible cover artwork
- Newly translated English subtitles for both films
AN ARIA ON GAZES:
- Commentary track with Asian cinema historian Pierce Conran & critic James Marsh
- "I’m Being Watched" (14 min) - an interview with director Hisayasu Satô
- "Lost in the Bedroom" (12 min) - an interview with actress Kyôko Nakamura
LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY:
- Commentary track with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp
- "Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs)" (10 min) - an interview with director Hisayasu Satô
- "Walking in Circles: Part 2" (24 min) - a locations featurette with director Hisayasu Satô
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Please Note: If you ordered Satô Vol.1 between September 1st - 3rd, please use coupon code SATO2 to save $6 on this release. Subscribers, please use coupon code SATO2-SUB.
This special limited edition Blu-ray comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Luke Insect), includes a 40-page perfect bound book, and is limited to 4,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.
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.
As pink film auteur Hisayasu Satô evolved as a filmmaker, he both expanded and refined his fascination with connecting elements of melancholy, violence, voyeurism, and repressed sexuality. In this second installment of THE FILMS OF HISAYASU SATÔ, Pink Line presents two of his most celebrated and also most controversial features from his prolific early 90s output, presented in new director-approved restorations from their 35mm original camera negatives.
In AN ARIA ON GAZES (aka The Bedroom), an exclusive Tokyo club offers a safe haven for its clients to anonymously indulge in perverse and deeply personal erotic fantasies as the lines between reality and imagination become increasingly opaque - and dangerous. One of Satô’s most lyrical and structurally experimental films, which effortlessly blends moments of tenderness and brutality, centers on a stirring performance by Kiyomi Itô (Muscle) and an appearance by real-life cannibal Issei Sagawa.
In LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY, Satô’s focus on bonding and connection through voyeurism hits a fever pitch in this simultaneously unsettling and romantic saga of two disturbed outsiders finding unexpectedly kindred spirits in each other. Takashi, a lonely voyeur whose feverish desire for companionship borders on stalking, is hired by a doctor to follow his mysterious young wife. But as they each grow increasingly aware of the other’s presence, violent desires also begin to erupt within them in this fatalistic piece, blurring intimacy and blood ritual.
directed by: Hisayasu Satô
starring: Kiyomi Itô, Momori Asano, Kyôko Nakamura, Issei Sagawa, Takeshi Itô, Ryûmei Homura
1992, 1994 / 127 min (combined) / 1.85:1 / Japanese 1.0 Mono
Additional info:
- Region Free Blu-ray
- 40-page perfect-bound book (limited edition only) includes essays by Jasper Sharp, Hayley Scanlon, and Filipe Furtado
- Reversible cover artwork
- Newly translated English subtitles for both films
AN ARIA ON GAZES:
- Commentary track with Asian cinema historian Pierce Conran & critic James Marsh
- "I’m Being Watched" (14 min) - an interview with director Hisayasu Satô
- "Lost in the Bedroom" (12 min) - an interview with actress Kyôko Nakamura
LOVE - ZERO = INFINITY:
- Commentary track with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp
- "Unidentified Followed Objects (UFOs)" (10 min) - an interview with director Hisayasu Satô
- "Walking in Circles: Part 2" (24 min) - a locations featurette with director Hisayasu Satô
