A cult pink film legend wanders Shinjuku's shadows, and suddenly you're complicit.
Hisayasu Satô revisits the locations in Shinjuku where he shot "Kyrie Eleison", "Turtle Vision" and "Rafureshia". (bonus feature on the "The Films of Hisayasu Satô: Volume #3" Bluray set released by Vinegar Syndrome).
Direction
Appleton lets Satô's silences speak louder than confession.
Cinematography
Shinjuku neon becomes haunted house to its own exploitation.
Director
Sarah Appleton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vinegar Syndrome's Satô box sets represent a fascinating tension: American cult film preservationists canonizing Japanese exploitation cinema that even Japan largely ignores.
The 'walking' documentary format—pioneered by Marker and others—here becomes almost therapeutic, forcing a director who trafficked in voyeurism to become the observed.
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