ALTERNATE "FLOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD" SYNOPSIS:
The bizarre artist Hideshi Hibino received an unidentified parcel in 1985 from an overly enthusiastic fan. It contained one 8mm film, 54 still pictures and a 19-page letter. The letter told Hideshi about a horrible crime that was actually filmed and documented. It was only to be shared with special people of like minds and to be kept a secret. After viewing the stills and watching the film Mr. Hibino turned the evidence over to the police. This was the first documented case of a snuff film ever made.
A historian noted after viewing the video that the torture perpetrated in the film was similar to that performed by samurai executioners of 16th century AD Japan during the reign of the Shogun Tokugawa leyasu. The ritual itself was perverted from the original concept and visited upon a helpless female victim. It was twisted to coincide with the perpetrator's own beliefs and more then likely represented what he considered the embodiment of art and release from this world. We can only guess at who the cameraman was. He was accomplice, witness, provocateur and the documenter of a delusional schizophrenic with a penchant for bloodletting and necromania. Just for the sheer fact that he filmed it, the man behind the camera must have his own personal demons to contend with.
In the original film the man dressed as a Samurai, drugs the woman while speaking to the camera. Letting all who watch see into his mind as he explains the beauty of what he is doing. He then proceeds to slowly dismember and disembowel her, culminating the act by decapitating her in painfully gruesome detail. Nothing is left to the imagination. Psychologists have noted that the art he displays at the end of the video shows an intense satisfaction and love for his victims. He is not killing them out of anger but out of love. Helping them go beyond what our reality is and becoming a thing of beauty that only he can truly appreciate. Both the video itself and the artwork show an intensity seem only in the work of schizophrenics. He is doing this for something only known to him and, until he is caught, it will remain that way.
This video is a recreation of the film and stills Hideshi Hibino received in the mail. The film is still on file in a Japanese evidence room in Tokyo. Just like "The Devil's Experiment", it is based on fact. Two people performed this atrocity. One filmed it while the other committed the horrendous act. Police found the exact place the beginning of the video was filmed but no one in the surrounding area could help them identify the man or men they were searching for. They couldn't even find the identity of the innocent woman they saw butchered beyond recognition. Women vanish every day in Tokyo and we are sure others have been added to his collection. Knowledge of this case has been kept secret due to the public outcry that would surely follow. The Tokyo Police still have no clues as to the identity of the man in the Samurai outfit or the victim. After 17 years no one has been arrested and the actual case itself has been dropped. |