28 October 2012

Gozu (Japan, 2003)

Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his brother Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.

A deeply surreal story about the Yakuza, men with cow heads and bizarre sexual activities. All from the strange mind of Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins), Gozu is one of his most Lynch-ian film due to the perplexing nature of the plot. And then of course, there's that certain birth-scene, which is one of the most bizarre and nastiest things I've ever seen.

Genre: Crime/Drama

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