An Aria on Gazes – New Restoration
- Tuesday, Oct 6, 2026, 6:00pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
One of legendary filmmaker Hisayasu Satô’s most celebrated and visually stunning works, newly restored!
Housewife Kyoko (Kiyomi Ito) 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.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
*No one under 18 admitted*