Whether youre a gozu diehard or you dont know miike from mickey mouse, get ready for some eyepiercing filmmaking as we count down the 10 craziest takashi miike movies. Miike reteams with writer sato who adapted ichi the killer for him in an only partly successful attempt to crossbreed the yakuza and horror genres. This is takashi miike doing david lynch, and as hes shown before, the man is a genius. This is not takashi miike, filmmaker behind the modern cult hits ichi the killer and audition, as youd might expect. Seiji and yoshifumi are the only members of the muto branch of the date family. Trova trailer, recensioni e tutte le informazioni su gozu di takashi miike.
While hed already made a slew of low budget films in the years prior to fudoh. Takashi miike director of gozu by anderswolleck suicidegirls. Hes an old man who used to be a very popular actor in japan but he recently hasnt done well as an actor. Gozu by takashi miike is a film that you will constantly think about while simultaneously, with what is left of your sanity, try to forget lest you be thrown in an insane. Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named brother. Watch gozu 2003 full movie free streaming online tubi. I wasnt planning on seeing gozu, one of miike s latest films he releases three or four in any given year, but when it turned out that gozu was the last film i was working on my last volunteer shift of the festival and they needed somebody to sit in the theater to watch out for video pirates, i quickly volunteered my services. He thrashes the living hell out of it, and finishes his beating with swinging it round and round on the leash and smashing it into the restaurant front window in bloody bits at the fiveminute mark exactly. With yuta sone, kimika yoshino, shohei hino, keiko tomita. And you can also download a master pdf document containing all 32 catalogue entries see below. Takashi miike was born in the small town of yao on the outskirts of osaka, japan. Miike makes good use of his homeland, though, as in his recent festivalcircuit favorite gozu. It begins with minami, a member of the yakuza, being forced to take his now.
From the acclaimed director, takashi miike, comes a yakuzahorror film to shock and amaze audiences everywhere. Gozu dvd, 2004, uncut, unrated directors version for. Gozu certainly falls under the weird category and then some, but the problem is, its not terribly entertaining. K ive seen two takashi miike films before audition and ichi the killer, plus his episode of masters of horror imprint so i picked. This recommendation is not for a mass audience in the slightest. Gozu, a title which literally translates to oxhead, is another one of takashi miike s most infamous works in the realms of surreal horror. A member of a japanese crime syndicate is ordered to kill his colleague, but encounters spinechilling complications after his victim vanishes.
Gozu is available to watch free on tubi tv and stream, download, buy on. Takashi miike is at the top of his game, loving every minute of his. Gozu by takashi miike hideki sone, sho aikawa, kimika. The master list of takashi miike films presented over the first 20 years of the fantasia. Takashi miike is a master of body horror and squirminducing sexual weirdness, as hes taken many opportunities to demonstrate. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in yokohama founded by renowned director shohei imamura, primarily because there were no entrance exams. Gozu full movie hd gozu full movie hd link in last page to watch or. In the film, two yakuza leave the city and head to nagoya, a bizarre, rundown tourist trap that could have been pulled directly from a david lynch or coen brothers film, and the kind of modernized exurbia that rarely appears in widely distributed japanese films. Gozu is a 2003 japanese horror comedy crime film directed by takashi miike and written by.
Cows head is a 2003 japanese horror comedy crime film directed by takashi miike and written by sakichi sato. Controversial japanese director takashi miike talks to. He surpasses lynch in pure weirdness while retaining a. The story has something to do with a young yakuza who finds himself in the middle of a nightmarish, lynchian town where women serve up their own breast milk as a. Hes also a filmmaker capable of great wit and the cogent dissemination of actual ideas. Takashi miike reflection gozu 2003 exploring extreme.
I first saw takashi miike s gozu at the cannes international film festival in 2003 with a colleague who. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video and television productions since his debut in 1991. Find where to watch gozu and many more fulllength movies from. I just watched it for the first time and i must say, this is the strangest movie i ever watched. Starting ostensibly as yet another yakuza movie, it takes a major turn into the surreal very soon into the story. Takashi miike s career was established in vcinema, where he became the poster boy of a generation of 90s filmmakers challenging perceptions of what movies could be. Peculiarities aside, gozu is a good example of miike s fierce loyalty to his actors. When talking about a film made by takashi miike, it goes without saying that its weird. Hideki sone and harumi sone in takashi miike s gozu. The violence on display is very much toned down with no real shock factor. Gozu is a genuine relic of that particular time and without a doubt one of the highlights of that period. Even though takashi miike is going through a more kidfriendly phase of his career nintama rantaro, ace attorney, he is still fondly remember for the wacky and crazy stuff he made 1015 years ago. Gozu is probably the flatout strangest, most mindbending movie from takashi miike. Want to behold the glory that is gozu on your tv or mobile device at home.
The second is that i find people attempting to write about and figure out films like this to be, frankly hilarious. A surreal trip into the mind of talented japanese director takashi miike, gozu is bizarre, creepy, and hard to forget. Gozu is a 2003 japanese horror comedy crime film directed by takashi miike. And yet, if youve seen these films, to an ironic extent, you should know what to expect. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. Gozu by takashi miike is a film that you will constantly think about while simultaneously, with what is left of your sanity, try to forget lest you be thrown in an insane asylum. In takashi miike s fabulous gozu, the maniacal yakuza ozaki doesnt just kick the dog. While i found it strangely mesmerizing, i still wonder whether there is hidden meaning that i didnt get. Gozu is a completely different film in comparison to miike s earlier work, while some may call upon the definitive identity the film has as a miike production in all honesty he has never really made a film like this before. A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to. The same feeling stirred in me the first time i watched david lynchs eraserhead. There is really only one reason that i chose gozu as my film selection for the theme of birth. Its david lynch meets japanese yakuzawith plenty of surreal sexual perversion along the waylike only takashi miike can deliver.
If i remember right, my friend had already seen a paranoid japanese gangster killing a fluffy little lap dog in the belief that it was a. Well, two i guess, the first being that i am an asshole. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting. Tell me what happens, he whispered on his way out, a request that proved difficult to fulfill.
Gozu full movie hd download full version gozu video or download now. If ichi the killer stressed the extreme nature of takashi miike s cinematic sensibility, gozu hammers it home with a bloodspattered mallet. Just want to keep these rare works from miike uploaded so others can find them as i did. Whilst it isnt as well known or recognized as ichi the killer or audition, gozu still has its fan following as being one of the more unrestrained and completely bizarre movies to. Miike splices the yakuza genre with horror, and the. Kikoku 2003 related movies, tvseries and talkshows. The new generation, it would be this 1996 entry that elevated him above his contemporaries. Takashi miike, miike takashi, born august 24, 1960 is a japanese filmmaker. This is as much of an explanation for what goes on in the movie as youre likely to get and if you think im being a little cryptic, just watch the movie.
The film blends yakuza stories with ghost stories, bizarre vignettes, and urban legends. Gozu has its memorable moments, certainly, and is not the offthewall barrage of weirdness for its own sake to which miike s. Arguably miike s best serious yakuza film, the easiest way to quickly describe this one is as a takashi miike version of a takeshi kitano gangster film, especially his recent outrage titles, which this movie predates by nearly a decade. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and familyfriendly. It started with an idea from the executive producer of gozu named harumi sone. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. I n the same way that takeshi kitano crept on to the international stage in the 1990s with a series of distinctive thrillers, the western world is gradually waking up to takashi miike. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and familyfriendly.