list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Gozu on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Gozu/228991/default.aspx Title: Gozu
Year: 2003
Director: Takashi Miike
Plot: At a yakuza gathering, Ozaki (Shô Aikawa of the Dead or Alive films) unsettles the boss (Renji Ishibashi) when he claims a small dog outside the restaurant is a "yakuza attack dog" and viciously smashes it to death. Minami (Hideki Sone) is assigned to drive the apparently unstable Ozaki to a remote location and kill him. Minami considers Ozaki a "brother," and feels ambivalent about this assignment. After several odd incidents on the road, Minami ends up in the small town of Nagoya, where things get even odder. Unable to get a signal on his cellular, Minami goes into a restaurant to use the phone, and Ozaki, whom he thought to be unconscious, promptly vanishes. When Minami finally contacts the boss, he's told to get in touch with the local Shiroyama crew. Minami doesn't know his way around, and the weird locals seem more interested in animated, interminable arguments about the weather than in helping him find his way. Eventually he runs into Nose (Shôhei Hino), who seems relatively sane, and offers to help him find Ozaki. Minami spends the night at an inn, where the innkeeper (Keiko Tomita) possesses a strange lactating power (which she's eager to demonstrate), and mistreats her mentally challenged employee (Harumi Sone). After another frustrating day searching for Ozaki, during which he encounters the decrepit Shiroyama crew, Minami finds a note from his "brother," and travels to the town dump to meet him, only to find Ozaki (now played by Kimika Yoshino) in a transformed state. Gozu was directed by the prolific Takashi Miike from a script by Sakichi Satô, who also wrote the script for Miike's Ichi the Killer. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:31:13 GMTGozu2003Takashi MiikeAt a yakuza gathering, Ozaki (Shô Aikawa of the <a href=/films/140663/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Dead or Alive</a> films) unsettles the boss (Renji Ishibashi) when he claims a small dog outside the restaurant is a "yakuza attack dog" and viciously smashes it to death. Minami (Hideki Sone) is assigned to drive the apparently unstable Ozaki to a remote location and kill him. Minami considers Ozaki a "brother," and feels ambivalent about this assignment. After several odd incidents on the road, Minami ends up in the small town of Nagoya, where things get even odder. Unable to get a signal on his cellular, Minami goes into a restaurant to use the phone, and Ozaki, whom he thought to be unconscious, promptly vanishes. When Minami finally contacts the boss, he's told to get in touch with the local Shiroyama crew. Minami doesn't know his way around, and the weird locals seem more interested in animated, interminable arguments about the weather than in helping him find his way. Eventually he runs into Nose (Shôhei Hino), who seems relatively sane, and offers to help him find Ozaki. Minami spends the night at an inn, where the innkeeper (Keiko Tomita) possesses a strange lactating power (which she's eager to demonstrate), and mistreats her mentally challenged employee (Harumi Sone). After another frustrating day searching for Ozaki, during which he encounters the decrepit Shiroyama crew, Minami finds a note from his "brother," and travels to the town dump to meet him, only to find Ozaki (now played by Kimika Yoshino) in a transformed state. Gozu was directed by the prolific <a href="/players/P___235203/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Takashi Miike</a> from a script by Sakichi Satô, who also wrote the script for Miike's <a href=/films/201162/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Ichi the Killer</a>. ~ Josh Ralske, All Movie Guide10Taggedy Taggged (6-10)7123http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t51522th81o.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Gozu/228991/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_weirdest_movies/190/32181/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: TheWorkingDead
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Post Date: 7/6/2008 4:34:32 AM
Body: Gozu/Izo: I know, I'm cheating by putting two films on here in one spot, but I can't decide which is weirder, and they're both by Takashi Miike. So if you're #5 spot can contain a whole list of movies, than I can include one tie. Gozu is a weird road trip as a yakuza tries to find and dispose of the body of his mentor in the weirdest small town this side of Twin Peaks. A man who collects the skins of dead Yakuza members for their tattoos, a woman who runs an inn and sells her breast milk to the town, and a giant minotaur demon are only three of the increasingly strange people he runs into. Izo is the tale of one man's rampage as he kills his way towards heaven, moving through time and space with every camera angle. There is not one 5 minute stretch of the film that takes place in one time period, and often past and future exist in the same setting. And, I have to be uncool and admit, I don't understand a lick of it. Inland Empire You had this as an honorary mention, and I'm putting it here because, well, it was the one time where David Lynch out-weirded me. I mean to say, I usually fall in love with all of his films and all of his surrealism, but Inland Empire kept shaking me loose faster than I could keep up with it. Soul Vengeance A pimp goes to prison, and while he probably deserved it for other crimes, he was basically railroaded by a racist cop(who tries to castrate him), judge and legal system. After he gets out of prison, he wreaks vengeance on those who wronged him by strangling them with his penis, which he discovered how to grow to a length of several yards. Seventies blacksploitation at it's craziest. The Monkees Head This movie is surprising even to the people who appreciate the surrealism and subversiveness of the Monkees TV show. For a band put together as a spoof, and mainly for commercial purposes, this movie is blisteringly anti-corporate. Wacky and silly like the show, but without the humor(intentionally so), with a script co-written by Jack Nicholson, Head is stranger than you could imagine. With some of the greatest music the Monkees ever produced, and a very funny Frank Zappa cameo. Watch it and marvel at what a G rated movie USED to be. Riget I & II Maybe this is cheating as well, since it's a Danish miniseries and it's technically two movies, but this deserves mention. There are certainly more surreal and bizarre things out there, but this one covers so much ground in it's run. You need only to watch it and witness Udo Kier's introduction to the series(towards the halfway point) to see that this movie deserves it's inclusion. A series about a haunted hospital that is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and the only downside to it is that they will never finish the series as many of the principal cast members died after the second miniseries aired. There was an american remake, Kingdom Hospital, but it is no overstatement to say that it was a travesty on all accounts.
]]>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:34:32 GMTTheWorkingDeadTop 57/6/2008 4:34:32 AMGozu/Izo: I know, I'm cheating by putting two films on here in one spot, but I can't decide which is weirder, and they're both by Takashi Miike. So if you're #5 spot can contain a whole list of movies, than I can include one tie. Gozu is a weird road trip as a yakuza tries to find and dispose of the body of his mentor in the weirdest small town this side of Twin Peaks. A man who collects the skins of dead Yakuza members for their tattoos, a woman who runs an inn and sells her breast milk to the town, and a giant minotaur demon are only three of the increasingly strange people he runs into. Izo is the tale of one man's rampage as he kills his way towards heaven, moving through time and space with every camera angle. There is not one 5 minute stretch of the film that takes place in one time period, and often past and future exist in the same setting. And, I have to be uncool and admit, I don't understand a lick of it. Inland Empire You had this as an honorary mention, and I'm putting it here because, well, it was the one time where David Lynch out-weirded me. I mean to say, I usually fall in love with all of his films and all of his surrealism, but Inland Empire kept shaking me loose faster than I could keep up with it. Soul Vengeance A pimp goes to prison, and while he probably deserved it for other crimes, he was basically railroaded by a racist cop(who tries to castrate him), judge and legal system. After he gets out of prison, he wreaks vengeance on those who wronged him by strangling them with his penis, which he discovered how to grow to a length of several yards. Seventies blacksploitation at it's craziest. The Monkees Head This movie is surprising even to the people who appreciate the surrealism and subversiveness of the Monkees TV show. For a band put together as a spoof, and mainly for commercial purposes, this movie is blisteringly anti-corporate. Wacky and silly like the show, but without the humor(intentionally so), with a script co-written by Jack Nicholson, Head is stranger than you could imagine. With some of the greatest music the Monkees ever produced, and a very funny Frank Zappa cameo. Watch it and marvel at what a G rated movie USED to be. Riget I &amp; II Maybe this is cheating as well, since it's a Danish miniseries and it's technically two movies, but this deserves mention. There are certainly more surreal and bizarre things out there, but this one covers so much ground in it's run. You need only to watch it and witness Udo Kier's introduction to the series(towards the halfway point) to see that this movie deserves it's inclusion. A series about a haunted hospital that is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and the only downside to it is that they will never finish the series as many of the principal cast members died after the second miniseries aired. There was an american remake, Kingdom Hospital, but it is no overstatement to say that it was a travesty on all accounts. http://www.spout.com/blogs/ironabacus/archive/2007/5/7/8362.aspx Post By: IronAbacus
Post To: Haiku Reviews of Extreme Asian Cinema
Post Date: 5/7/2007 2:31:00 PM
Body: Slow but visceral and strange; not for the lactose intolerance prone | ●●●●○ | IMDb | AMG | Spout
]]>Mon, 07 May 2007 18:31:00 GMTIronAbacusHaiku Reviews of Extreme Asian Cinema5/7/2007 2:31:00 PMSlow but visceral and strange; not for the lactose intolerance prone | ●●●●○ | IMDb | AMG | Spout http://www.spout.com/groups/From_Asia_With_Love/Re_Lack_of_Updates/155/7717/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Puhnner
Post To: From Asia With Love
Post Date: 4/27/2007 10:19:45 AM
Body: Here are a couple that I have seen recently that were just great.Sex and FuryDeadly Outlaw: RekkaA Scene at the SeaBranded to Killand here are a few more for your list:Akira Kurosawa's DreamsVisitor QGozuUgestuRed BeardThe Bad Sleep WellBlackmail is my LifeBrotherChaosDodes Ka-denGo, Go Second Time VirginHarakiri just my thoughts...
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