Hisayasu Satô – Gankyû no yume AKA The Eye’s Dream (2016)
Body horror transitions smoothly into pink film (Japanese soft porn) in this story about the young photographer Maya, who is upset by eyes. She pushes her camera into the face of every passer-by. She hounds her victims and penetrates the window into their soul. Neurologist Sata diagnosis her as suffering from an unusual form of phantom pain, the result of her being kidnapped at a young age, an ordeal that ended with her skewering the eye of the kidnapper. Sata asks if he can make a documentary about her. The hunter becomes prey. At the same time, an eye thief roams the city and it turns out that Maya’s former tormentor has not forgotten her.
The violence in this genre-bender is grotesque, the sex disturbing. But in addition, serious subjects are tackled, such as voyeurism and ‘the male gaze’. The act of looking itself is sexualised, and then even totalised. Or as Maya puts it: “I am an eyeball.”
Gankyu.no.yume.AKA.The.Eyes.Dream.2016.720p.BluRay.x264.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1 h 42 min Size: 5.29 GiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 1280x694 Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Frame rate: 23.976 fps Bit rate: 6 743 kb/s BPP: 0.317 Audio #1: Japanese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 640 kb/s
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Japanese
