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Gozu

Hideki Sone , Sho Aikawa , Takashi Miike  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hideki Sone, Sho Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino, Shohei Hino, Keiko Tomita
  • Directors: Takashi Miike
  • Format: Color, Director's Cut, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
  • DVD Release Date: November 23, 2004
  • Run Time: 129 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002Z7RNG
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,727 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Gozu" on IMDb

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Editorial Reviews

From the acclaimed director Takashi Miike comes a Yakuza/ horror film to shock and amaze audiences everywhere! When Minami is sent to kill his mentor Ozaki who is in the midst of a nervous breakdown he embarks on a journey of unexplained natural phenomenon that only the director of such films as Audition Dead or Alive and Ichi the Killer can provide in this surreal Lynchian/Cronenberg-like odyssey!Special features16x9 anamorphic video transfer letterboxed Audio Commentary with film critics Andy Klein & Wade Major** Interview with Takashi Miike featuring directors Guillermo Del Toro ("Hellboy") and Eli Roth ("CabinFever")** Making of featurette** Still Gallery Biographies FilmNotes by author Tom Mes - **Unrated version onlySystem Requirements: Running Time 129 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 825307911497 Manufacturer No: PH-91149

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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, great DVD April 8, 2005
Format:DVD
Explaining that there's a "Yakuza attack dog" outside, a Japanese gangster in the midst of a nervous breakdown strolls out of a restaurant and proceeds to beat an adorable Chihuahua to death, culminating when he swings the animal over his head by its leash and throws it against a window with a sickening thud. A mob boss browbeats an underling over the phone while having sex with a ladle planted firmly up his rectum. An innkeeper lactates into bottles in order to avoid paying for milk, and later flogs her simple-minded brother with a chimney brush while he attempts to conjure up a spirit for a stunned guest. A drooling, cow-headed demon suddenly shows up in a dream sequence, then vanishes as quickly as it had appeared with no explanation whatsoever.

Sound weird? Well, it should. However, the foregoing are just a sampling of the oddities on display in Gozu (Japanese for "Cow head," apparently), a film that's sure to have even the most experienced enthusiasts of far-out cinema shaking their heads in wonderment. Directed by notorious Japanese weird-out master Takashi Miike with his typical combination of high style, black humor, and random acts of weirdness, Gozu is a relentlessly inscrutable movie, constantly throwing a new curveball at you just when you think you've got a grip on it. And while Miike has certainly toned down the bloodshed for which he's renowned here, his knack for unforgettable set pieces has obviously managed to survive intact. This movie has some images that WILL remain seared onto your retinas for some time after viewing, none more so than its literally unbelievable conclusion. There's not even a suitable description for that scene; you've just got to see it.

At the movie's beginning, things look much more innocent, or at least simpler. After the aforementioned mentally unbalanced Yakuza, Ozaki (played with menacing flair by Japanese crime-movie mainstay Sho Aikawa), commits his shocking act of doggy-cide in the opening scene, his boss decides he must be taken out. The task of doing the deed falls to his underling and closest friend, Minami (Hideki Sone), a nice enough sort who's understandably conflicted about whacking his old buddy. However, Minami manages to get the job done, albeit in a somewhat unconventional manner, and proceeds to a predetermined dump site in order to dispose of the body. Unfortunately, Minami makes a quick stop for coffee in a diner populated by some, er, offbeat characters, and suddenly looks at his car and finds Ozaki inexplicably gone. And that's when things get *really* weird.

His search for Ozaki takes Minami to a town filled with bizarre characters, from a gangster with no pigment on one side of his face to the aforementioned lactating innkeeper to a couple of weirdos who sit around a diner talking about the weather; and things just keep getting stranger from there. It quickly becomes apparent that Minami is the most normal person in the movie, and much of the fun of watching Gozu comes from observing the cognitive dissonance as Minami tries to adjust to the reality of his surroundings. It's horror of a sort, but it springs more from a deep-seated discomfort than from any particular shock or fright, and Sone conveys it brilliantly with little more than the frequent look of befuddlement on his face. The pacing is admittedly slow, sometimes painfully so, but that doesn't stop Gozu from being a triumph of atmosphere and surrealism. Minami is the proverbial stranger in a strange land, but here the land is strange in more ways than one. It's been said that the often tenuous nature of reality is a common theme in Miike's work, and that's apparent here, as Gozu gets a lot of mileage out of seeing Minami placed in such uncomfortable surroundings and witnessing one scarcely conceivable event after another.

Sometimes (the Yakuza boss with a ladle up his butt being a prime example) the movie's bizarre imagery is gratuitous (if funny), but in other places it's clearly designed to shock you into thinking. This becomes especially apparent in the film's final half, when the unlikely reappearance of Ozaki in an, er, modified form begin's Miike's exploration of the reincarnation/rebirth angle that gives Gozu what emotional resonance it has. This theme gains its fullest expression in the literally jaw-dropping finale, which surely ranks as one of the most stunning in film history. Again, nothing that can be written in this space can do this scene justice. It has to be seen to be disbelieved.

With all the bizarre happenings going on, Gozu is definitely a challenging watch and not exactly for everyone, but fortunately the plethora of extras on the DVD do a whole lot to enhance the viewing experience. Especially useful is the fanboy commentary track from film critics Andy Klein and Wade Major, who discuss some of the underlying themes of the movie like two experts dissecting a football game, while simultaneously placing it in context among both Miike's repertoire in particular and Japanese cinema in general. You also get an essay from Miike expert Tom Mes that cites some of the film's ideas and influences and no less than three interviews with Miike that see him talking about his philosophy on filmmaking and analyzing some of his own work. Miike is certainly one strange cat, which probably explains why he made this movie in the first place, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. If you like Audition or any of his other work, you should consider Gozu an essential watch.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best movies ever February 4, 2005
Format:DVD
i absolutely loved this film. without destroying the story let me tell you if one were to classify this film it would be a cross between a gangster, horror thriller, suspense mystery, and a weird twisted version of love. The japaneese are twisted and boy is this movie its gots some weird but intellectual humor constantly throughout the film. Its a little slow but it adds to the strangness of the world the main character is in. Every scene is so perfectly scripted in such an odd but intriguing way. The main character searches for his brother which may sound kinda boring but its bizarre, everyone he meets and everywhere he goes is off, theres something just not right about it all. Its like he's stuck in a dream and he is the only one and all he wants to do is find his lost brother! Throw in the dreamlike paranoia with the artistic creative side of this directors works and you got GOZU! gozu meaning cow head's got some real memorable scenes that yourll be feeling sick to or laughing about or just plain remembering at random points in the day for a long time.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Nightmare Trip July 7, 2006
Format:DVD
When compared to Lynch I somehow disagree. It's my subjective feeling about this movie for sure, but the main difference to Lynch's movies is the fact that Lynch movies are filled up with ideas that seem connected with dreamlike logic. Every scene has this "important key moment" feeling to it, making the audience to really think and search for connections and clues. With GOZU I somehow quit looking for explanations very early on as it is deadly obvious that there are none. It's just a trip in which not really much happens - the things that happen are sometimes cool, sometimes just bizarre for it's own sake, not giving you the impression that two scenes really belong to each other. The movie and its story could be told in a few minutes but is stretched with a lot of nothingness in between the scenes. The ideas could be counted on the fingers of two hands while with Lynch, it was much more uncompromising.

GOZU tells the odyssey of a man who's searching the corpse of his boss that got lost in a strange japanese town. His quest leads him from one person to the other, everyone is acting strange, one american woman for example is having a dialogue with the guy, always staring at the ceiling, but at one point she seems to have troubles telling the name of a hotel, so he checks the ceiling and finds the whole dialogue they just had written down there. Many scenes made me go "ah wow now look there ha ha ha", but left me untouched afterwards. I think the creators wanted to have a drifter film that you can watch and be guided throught with not really much to think. Sure, it's skillfully made and I actually liked the dialogues and events, but the way they happened was not really an experience like with "2001 space odyssey", "Lost Highway" and stuff. I would more think of "Fear and loathing in las vegas" for some strange reason. Some ideas I literally disliked, they made me go "aaaw cheap cheap", like the personality change at the end of the movie. I'd say there's no Freud and such stuff in here, it's just a fun movie in the end. Like a strange, dreamy trip.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest
Funniest offbeat yakuza gangster comedy drama you'll ever see. Riffs on the odyssey and follows the transformation of two gang members' friendship to a relationship to a menage e... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Opah Jorge
5.0 out of 5 stars TAKASHI MIIKE WITH ANOTHER STRANGE YET INTRIGUING FILM!!
I LOVED THIS MOVIE IT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE BUT IF YOU LIKE TAKASHI MIIKE YOU WILL LOVE THIS!!! IT IS VERY BIZARRE BUT WHAT MIIKE MOVIES AREN'T THAT BEING SAID WELL ACTED, WELL SHOT,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by JAMES CHRISTENSEN JR.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh squeezed!
Animal cruelty,bottled breast-milk, reincarnation, circumcisions,ladling spoon implements, Yakuzas?--must be Miike up to his old tricks again. Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. O. Booker
3.0 out of 5 stars Madness alive
Pretending being Hong Kongers, two brothers hung around Japan with no reason but an older sibling's intention to kill yakuza "old man" and seize a control over a gang, found... Read more
Published on November 22, 2009 by Michael Kerjman
5.0 out of 5 stars Eeh!,Wa!.....Is that a hand coming from out of your vagina?
See a woman give birth to a full grown man while she's having sex....See a creepy old lady lactate her milk all over the place(Yeesshhh!!!! Read more
Published on January 25, 2009 by CraigalsCosmosis
5.0 out of 5 stars truly strange and intriguing.. this one's out there.
As strange and twisted as this movie is, it manages to be completely surreal, and at times subtle. it was a crazy experience to say the least. Read more
Published on May 7, 2008 by Raul Duke
5.0 out of 5 stars Gozu equals Cow God goodness
This is one of my favorite movies ever, and definitely the best work famed director, Takashi Miike, has ever made. Read more
Published on May 6, 2008 by Richard B. Knight
5.0 out of 5 stars A
Gozu is a twisted fever dream that no sane man should ever dream up... forever laddels, cows, poodles, milk, and child birth will be looked at differently after watching this... Read more
Published on April 21, 2008 by Wade Mcfarland
3.0 out of 5 stars Strange and watchable, but pointless
Things get strange when two Japanese gangsters (Hideki Sone and Sho Aikawa) are sent to a remote town and one of them disappears. Read more
Published on January 16, 2008 by David Bonesteel
2.0 out of 5 stars Yakuza Horror Theater
Simply said, Yakuza Horror Theater isn't for everyone -- particularly in the case of Gozu, which draws heavily from the influences of gangster cinema, art house horror, and the... Read more
Published on October 29, 2007 by Nicholas D. Butler
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