Blind Beast (1969)

I am able to receive a number of German television channels via satellite and normally scan their schedules in the hope of finding something special, which usually nets silent films where the language is less important.  Most of the balance of the movies shown are dubbed into German, but occasionally as with this Japanese film they resort to German subtitles and I can just about cope.  Even without following all of the dialogue I was amazed at how unusual this film was and how strange its conception.  A young and very attractive bondage model is kidnapped by a blind sculptor and his mother and taken to his studio, so that he can feel her body and produce his ultimate masterpiece.  The studio in question is about the size of a football pitch and has walls and walls of oversized body parts: noses, eyes, lips, arms, legs, breasts -- the visual effect of this is so surreal that it is unnerving, especially since the main floor area is taken up with an enormous nude of at least fifty times life size.  After futile attempts to escape, the young model chooses to seduce the sculptor and he begins to fall for her, much to his mother's annoyance.  However when the latter tries to let the girl escape, the artist intervenes and his mother is accidentally killed.  Afterwards a strange sado-masochistic relationship develops between the other two characters which can only end destructively in mutilation and self-mutilation.  To see the pair energetically making love on the belly of the huge nude is another image from this movie which will remain in the memory.  Perhaps the Japanese have a penchant for obsessive love; one only has to remember "Ai No Corrida".   I have perhaps given away too many spoilers in writing about this film, but then again I doubt that it is one that is likely to come anywhere near your way soon.