Irezumi
Yasuzō Masumura’s Irezumi (1966) has been called “proto-feminist”, “subversive”, and “ahead of its time” by audiences and critics since the beginning of Masumura’s reappraisal in the 2010s. These descriptors of… Read more »
Tag: Yasuzo Masumura
Blind Beast
Aki Shima (Mako Midori), a model specializing in bondage portraits, is kidnapped by the blind “amateur” sculptor Michio Sofu (Eiji Funakoshi) and his mother (Noriko Sengoku) to serve as the… Read more »
Love For An Idiot
Author Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and director Yasuzo Masumura were frequent collaborators in a sense; the latter making a number of films based on the former’s novels, many of which deal with either… Read more »
The Black Test Car
Yasuzo Masumura was the preeminent commentator on Japanese society in the post-war period. His style was diverse; ranging from the melodramatic Manji (1964) to the erotic Blind Beast (1969). All… Read more »
