Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf (2001)

Japanese cult auteur Teruo Ishii ended his career on a perverse note with the sensationally titled horror film Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf (2001). Based on an infamous story by Edogawa Rampo and banned upon its original release, the grotesquely fascinating film is populated by all manner of disturbing creatures, including a blind masseuse stalker, a misshapen dwarf, and a kidnapped operetta prodigy. It’s left to a pulp novelist (Lily Franky) to make sense of the slanted circumstances, and although his macabre inquiry is short on answers, it’s long on depravity. If amputated dwarves aren’t your bag, starlets Kaori Danjou and Mutsumi Fujita offer a few unorthodox, scantily clad thrills of their own.