Halcion days, 16 November 2000
Author: white pongo (wap@nyc.odn.ne.jp) 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.

因心理疾病的缘故，中年男子永野（佐野和宏 饰）从十几岁就住在福岛的精神病院，而今已经过去40年的岁月。2011年的东日本大地震，迫使永野随同众人四处避难。在此期间，他情知自己已经痊愈，于是获准重返社会。与外界近半个世纪的隔离，令永野有如突然回到凡间的浦岛太郎。
在他的心中，依然埋藏着对某个人的思念。而今那名叫幸子（伊藤清美 饰）的女性，为了避难和丈夫、孩子搬到东京居住。得知了对方的下落，永野骑上自行车前往东京……

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends.

<<金翅鸟之梦>>导演濑濑敬久于1994年拍摄的片子,片中大量对日本洗浴的真实的描绘,其细腻的程度让人叹为观止,其中也不乏一些喜剧的镜头.笑的同时会引人深深的思考.

本作は、監督の瀬々敬久が自ら書き下ろしたオリジナルシナリオによるもので、脚本に記された本作の原題『わたくしの汽車は北へ走つてゐるはずなのに ここではみなみへかけてゐる』は、宮澤賢治の『春と修羅』初版本に収録された『青森挽歌』のなかの一文の引用である[4]。国映が製作し、新東宝映画が配給、同年11月28日に公開された[2]。同年10月10日に公開された瀬々の前作で、『わたくしといふ現象は仮定された有機交流電燈のひとつの青い照明です』という同じく宮澤賢治の『春と修羅』冒頭の一文[5]を原題とし、同じく岸加奈子が主演した『禁男の園 ザ・制服レズ』の7週後の公開である[6]。前作同様、瀬々が宮澤賢治にインスパイアされた時代[7]の作品である。

A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.

2004 film by Shinji Imaoka

High school student Kozue spreads flyers in search of her missing classmate. A psychopath lures her to his place, where he imprisons her. The psychopath gets his kicks by raping his victims with a chrome vibrator, poisoning them then photographing them as they die. However, when Kozue doesn’t act like his typical victims they start up a strange and twisted relationship.

在女性杂志社工作的洋子（麻田真夕饰）和丈夫朝雾（本多菊次郎饰）以及同父异母的妹妹和美（藍山みなみ饰）一起生活，一天，杂志社的编辑长黑岩（伊藤猛饰）让洋子对裂口女都市传说进行采访，而负责的加藤在三天前失踪，突如其来的工作让洋子感到疑惑，不过在加藤的办公桌上发现了大量采访报 告，在此过程中产生了兴趣。一方，みさお（華沢レモン饰）与和美的男朋友孝次（真田幹也饰）来到了流传裂口女传说而变成废墟的根月医院中取材，当二人进入病房时，みさお开始诱惑孝次，然后孝次忍不住诱惑于是跟みさお做爱，这时，裂口女出现在两人面前。。。.第二天，みさお从自家公寓跳楼的尸体被发现，洋子取材中，裂口女传说的真相也慢慢...

本作は、気鋭監督が製作費自腹で競い合った『刑事〈でか〉まつり』企画の第2作です。主役は刑事、上映時間は10分以内、1分に1回のギャグを入れるというルールで制作された前作に、今回は主役を女刑事にするというルールが加わりました。

殺し屋のミツルと相棒のタク。二人は相棒であり恋人同士でもある。或る日、追っていたターゲットの発砲により負傷したタク。ミツルは負傷したタクを抱えながらどちらからともなくお互いを求めあい…。

1995/2012 film by Sion Sono