An Aria on Gazes

Housewife Kyoko (Kiyomi Itō) begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito (Mineo Sugiura). The Bedroom isn’t like any normal sex club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their perverse encounters with the male clientele, waking up at the end of their shifts with no memory of what’s been done to them. But when Kyoko decides to explore her fetish for voyeurism by not taking the drug, the lines between fantasy and reality quickly become increasingly blurred—and dangerous.

Loosely Yasunari Kawabata's 1961 novella House of the Sleeping Beauties—and featuring a cameo from none other than real-life cannibal Issei Sagawa—An Aria on Gazes (also known as The Bedroom) is one of legendary filmmaker Hisayasu Satô’s most celebrated and visually stunning works.

New 2K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome.