Blind Beast (yasuzo Masumura, 1969)

An intense, no-holds-barred exploration of perversion, art and sado-masochism. A blind sculptor, with the aid of his mother, kidnaps and imprisons a young fashion model as a muse for his efforts to sculpt the perfect form. Set in a Dali-esque artist's studio covered in sculptures of giant eyeballs, over-sized limbs and assorted body parts, this incredibly visually inventive tale of madness and sexual obsession powers to a climax prefiguring Oshima's In The Realm of the Senses while recalling Franju's Eyes Without A Face. A call-to-arms for Outsider Art.

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio - a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in a world where sight is replaced by touch. Japanese New Wave master Yasuzo Masumura's beautiful and terrifying tale of erotic horror, from a short story by Edogawa Rampo, is one of the most dazzlingly stylistic tours de force in the history of cinema.

After seeing a dwarf run off with a severed arm, a young writer asks a detective friend of his, Kogoro Akechi (Shinya Tsukamoto), to investigate the disappearance of a young woman (who might have been the source of the limb). Meanwhile, a blind masseur kidnaps a cabaret singer (Mutsumi Fujita) and keeps her in captivity so that she can satisfy his tactile desires.

A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, applies make-up on her, and breaks down and cries in the fetal position. In the end the girl gets free and has her revenge.
At the time of its release Wakamatsu was quoted as saying "For me, violence, the body and sex are an integral part of life".