Gokudô kyôfu daigekijô: Gozu

2003 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 73% · 59 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 13483 13.5K

nightmare gangster yakuza mission of murder disappearance anarchic comedy

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Plot summary

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

Director

Takashi Miike Photo
Takashi Miike

Top cast

Harumi Sone Photo
Harumi Sone as Innkeeper's Brother
Ken'ichi Endô Photo
Ken'ichi Endô as Endo
Shô Aikawa Photo
Shô Aikawa as Ozaki
Kazuyoshi Ozawa Photo
Kazuyoshi Ozawa as
480p.DVD
1.12 GB
720*478
Japanese 2.0
Unrated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 9 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Surreal film from start to finish very David

Surreal film from start to finish very David Lynch inspired but a masterpiece in its own right!
Reviewed by justin t 4 / 10

This is a very strange film. It makes

This is a very strange film. It makes little sense. It is also very long with not much happening. The story may seem simplistic until you look deeper and there are so many subtle detailed nuances that it can be a little compelling. Sadly the film drags along, like the men in drag in the restaurant, to the more awkward situations. I mean what the hell would you do if an old lady offered you breast milk to drink? Especially difficult to refuse her if she was very insistent that you sampled her home-grown milky goodness. The ending is utterly twisted but does not justify the whole film before it. It started David Lynch and ended David Cronenberg.
Reviewed by William L 6 / 10

My second Miike after his excellent 1999 horror

My second Miike after his excellent 1999 horror film Audition, Gozu is such a bizarre combination of elements that it is very difficult to describe; it's more a film that you have to see to have any chance of understanding. My best stab at it would be if you took Wait in Fright, transplanted it into 2000s Japan, and dolloped in a seemingly endless parade of Yakuza narratives, traditional ghost stories, sexuality, and surrealism. The film floats through genres like almost nothing that you've ever seen before (even getting into a bit of Cronenberg body horror), and the only unifying feature seems to be a relentless dedication to the bizarre and a fascinatingly distinct and bonkers exploration of male sexual identity, using stereotypically masculine archetypes (gangsters) and subjecting them to literally transformative experiences to touch on identity. Miike demonstrates an idiosyncratic style that certainly puts him as one of the most original cinematic artists of his generation, possibly to the detriment of his commercial success. But this side of Miike might be just too darn weird for me; Gozu is the kind of film that you have to be at the far end of a normal distribution curve to really geek over, and I'm in that middle majority. Entirely unique and unpredictable, but very strange indeed. (3/5)
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