Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

fertilecelluloid Hisayasu Sato, a very prolific Japanese director, further explores his favorite themes of alienation, erotic bondage, second hand imagery, and bodily corruption in "The Bedroom", a film as non-linear as it needs to be. "The Bedroom" is notorious for its casting of convicted cannibal Issei Sagawa in a supporting role as a voyeur. This is not Sagawa's only screen role, however. He also starred in a recreation of his crime in the tongue-in-cheek, obscure documentary "Seven Days of Cannibal Sagawa", a personal favorite of mine that I can't get listed on IMDb. He makes little impression in Sato's film, but he's an interesting curio, nevertheless. Films like this one are better attended than watched for they possess the tone of an art installation more than a piece of pure cinema. I am usually disappointed with the director's work (his "Lolita Vibrator Torture" irritated me) and "The Bedroom" is no exception. I recommend "Naked Blood", however, very highly.

harlinoff123 This movie contains an "actor" by the name of Issei Sagawa. This man killed and raped a woman in Paris, and then ate her.THIS IS NOT A FALSE ACCUSATION! He was deemed insane in Paris and untreatable, as well as a risk to re offend. They're cheap and didn't want to pay for it, so the shipped him back Japan. Thing is his father's big in the industrial Japanese community( in other words the mafia), and got him off Scott free. Yes you read it correctly, he is a free man, walking the streets of Tokyo as you read this. For the sake of the memory of the innocent woman he killed and butchered(Renee Hartevelt), who he never showed any remorse or sadness do not ever rent this movie.

10166794 Hisayasu Sato was one of the most infamous of bad boy directors in the so-called Japanese new wave of the 90's. Some like Takashi Miike have become cult institutions; but Sato seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet. Still, when he WAS working he was something of a latterday Rainer Werner Fassbinder and very proloific... and as was the case with Fassbinders' films for a long time, it's really hard to track down and watch Sato's films. Which alone makes this film "An Aria on Gaze", sometimes boringly re-titled "The Bedroom" so important. If you like linear Hollywood stories, forget it, go rent some soft-core crap, this will bore you. I admit a large reason I wanted to watch this was to see real life convicted cannibal Issei Sagawa, who fled France to live a life of semi-celebrity in Japan. Sure, it may be morally questionable to watch him exploiting his notoriety, but I'm a human being and by our very nature we are curious beings. That's why we can build 'stuff' and dogs can't... but I digress. Imagine Rocco Siffredi directing a script loosely based on Last Year At Marienbad and you come close to imaging the world of Hisayasu Sato's stylised S&M collages.

Puppetmister This movie is truly intriguing and genuinely erotic. It also picks up on our worst fears about voyeurism and alienation from filmed images of ourselves. I don't want to spoil the shocking plot, so I won't mention it, but viewers should be aware that, although its not too extreme, this is an example of (albeit high level) Japanese underground film-making, and as such it contains sex scenes which are drwan out for the sake of titillation, but these are bolted to a cohesive and integral thematic framework which makes it all relevant and makes you question the erotic experience of watching such films. Thankfully, it doesn't judge or condemn you for doing so.