Halcion days, 16 November 2000
Author: white pongo ([email protected]) from tokyo japan
Having lived in Tokyo for almost two years,i can confirm my suspicions that Sato is one of the most Japanese directors working today.His films could not be made anywhere else by anyone else.His unwavering,logical dissection of a central theme (usually something to do with psychosis and obsession) spiralling towards a nihilistic, doomed (and romantic) ending is in keeping with a dark strain that's been in Japanese culture since it's inception.Xenophobic film watchers who think this is a scary mirror of modern Japanese society should however,not take it so seriously.THE BEDROOM is a very hard film to write about.It has no asides.All the usual cinematic bull**** has been lyposucked away leaving a economic, tight and intense story that goes from A to B swiftly and leaves the imprint of a film behind without actually developing fully.But it doesn't need to.It's like a song that never repeats that riff you like so much enough to fully satisfy you,so you listen again.And (if his whole back catalogue was available in English) i would immediately put on another Sato movie after this.They are as obsessive and addictive as his characters.Unredeeming,anti-social and seriously well-made.One day,some film-maker will push forward Sato as an influence and maybe people will take notice.But until then,his small fan base will watch them in darkened rooms in dark cities trying to replicate a fever dream.

“生き別れた眼球”を捜している麻耶（万里紗）は、カメラを手に魔都TOKYOを当てもなく歩いていた。そんな麻耶のドキュメンタリー映画を作ろうと彼女の姿を記録する脳神経外科医の佐多（中野剛）と、麻耶の眼球を狙う黒ずくめの眼球コレクター（PANTA）だったが……。

特殊漫画家、根本敬の初監督・脚本作品
アンダーグラウンド映画の金字塔が特典映像つき2枚組みでついにDVD化!!
【あらすじ】
亀ノ市(亀一郎)は40歳の童貞。
趣味はストリート千摺り。
下足番として勤務する企業の上司(佐川一政)のデコピンなどイジメもやまぬ毎日。
しかし、作曲家の吉田佐吉(大宮イチ)と便所で出会い彼の生活は一変する。
吉田の家に住み込みでこき使われ、先輩(坂上弘)に励まされながら歌手を目指しての特訓に明け暮れる
“掬い”なき、亀の問答無用な日々が始まったが、ある日…
【解説】
特殊漫画家・根本敬の初監督作品にして、今なお日本映画史においてハッテンバ(トイレ)の様に
臭覚を刺激し続けてやまない入手困難なる映像
『さむくないかい』が、21世紀初のパートカラー作品として鮮やかに甦る。
また、本編と対を成すディスク2は、映像と音を駆使して即興演奏を行う
ユダヤジャズこと相馬大による『さむくないかい』2010年2月7日自宅MEGAMIXライブ作品
『しおサイケデリック』を収録。

Caniba is a fresco about flesh and desire. It reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalism in human existence through the prism of one Japanese man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun Sagawa.