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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

That was an excellent one.

How sad is this?

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

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.

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.

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.

This is a very strange & at times frightening erotic love story. If you are turned off on Amputation scenes, DO NOT see this. But for those who are not , you will be caught up in its eroticism I saw this over a year ago, so cannot remember all the details, except that I was enthralled. Brilliant acting by a talented good looking cast & very well made. as always My rating is ***1/2 Jay Harris