'Splatter : Naked Blood' by Hisayasu Sato R1 USA DVD October 31st 2006.

Getting closer and close to the time pre-announced dates will be running out for Discotek, and now we're waiting on Teruo Ishii's 'Blind Woman's Curse' with Meiko Kaji to get a date (well, out of those of interest to me) since Sato's 'Naked Blood' finally gets an R1 USA DVD release set for the end of October - with a slightly altered title.

Also heading our way on that day is Sato's slightly delayed 'Rafureshia' from Artsmagic, as well as the next in their Shocking Pink series, 'Under the Carp Banner' (details are thin on the ground for that one right now) - both films show a different aspect of the mans work and he remains someone worth keeping a firm eye on as old work reimmerges (as these are) and new work hopefully continues (following the stunning 'Caterpillar' segment of 'Rampo Noir' which has a cracking R3 HK DVD out now) after some recent success.

Now, 'Naked Blood' will perhaps not impress many too easily, it certainly is a gore-soaked film but continues with what seems to be a regular theme in Sato's work, that of the connected between passion, sex, desease, obsession and that certain red stuff pumping through our veins. Sure, Pink movies are cetainly much broader than initially appears, perhaps (for me, anyway) the genre not yet fully accepted in the West by Japanese film fans which has an absolute abundance of talent flowing in and around it (now as in the past)- veritable goldmine of interesting films that's hardly been picked at.

This one might get picked up by people with more gore / horror perspectives that those taking tentative steps towards an interest in Pink films, though I say take a look into it and see if you can get your head around the concepts of it - the genres not as simple as is necessarily apparent at first, and never entirely easily defined for all its interlinked aspects, themes. I have the old Japan Shock DVD of this somewhere, and I was putting it aside for a time when I felt more capable of understanding it on simple terms. Now might be that time, might not.

'Naked Blood' Review at MandiApple; Warning, contains many gorey screen-caps.
'Naked Blood' Review at Beyond Hollywood.
'Naked Blood' Review at KFCC; Warning, contains many gorey screen-caps.