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Gozu

Article published 24th Apr 08
Gozu Watch

What:
Gozu

When:
Out now

Where:
On DVD from Siren Visual

Watch the opening:
Here

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There seems to be an unspoken law that says every film festival must feature a new Takashi Miike film. Luckily, he churns out multiple features a year without a care for genre, taste, or traditional three-act structure. This unpredictable output ensures he has his share of misses, but when he hits, he hits hard.

Highlights include 1999’s Audition,which starts as a bland romantic comedy and then, half way through,transforms into something, uh, not for the faint-hearted. (Again, and in bold: not for the faint-hearted.) And 2000’s Dead or Aliveis an uber-Yakuza flick – with a must-see first ten minutes – that pushes the envelope of excess to until the logic of the genre fallsapart.

Now 2003’s Gozu has finally arrived on DVD, and it’ssynopsis-proof. It starts as a quirky gangster film, but quickly shiftsinto a Lynch-like dream. Conceptual slapstick sits next to body-horror birth sequences. There’s a drooling minotaur, too, and…

You should probably just watch it for yourself. Miike admits it’s only normal things that bother him: “They disturb me more than the violence.”

By Martyn Pedler

Format: DVD

Genre: Other

Keywords: Takashi Miike, Siren Visual

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