My advice is to eat before you. Gozu, much like its director, is a cinematic law unto itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

Gozu takes you on a very strange psychosexual journey, which is all the more disturbing because it takes place in completely ordinary surroundings...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 14, 2009

Many times it's just a rambling and incoherent mess without a point in sight...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Beat's back, with another Yakuza flick under his (black?) belt.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Miike has a knack for tapping into deep-seated cultural anxieties-- particularly male sexual anxiety--that few filmmakers can match.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 4, 2005

Anyone in the mood for a gender-bending yakuza comedy/horror film and who doesn't mind seeing a lot of bodily fluids spewing onto the screen ought to give Gozu a whirl.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2005

| Original Score: B- | Dec 20, 2004

Takashi Miike is one sick puppy. Anyone who has seen his films understands ... All the same, Miike is an astonishing, prolific filmmaker

| Nov 26, 2004

How refreshing it is to see a movie, even an imperfect one, that is completely unpredictable and astonishingly bizarre.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2004

Starts off making almost no sense and becomes less and less logical the longer it plays.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 6, 2004

An undisciplined mess.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 30, 2004

... prime evidence in the argument that gonzo gangster movie maverick Takashi Miike is a major director goofing on minor works.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 26, 2004

For Miike freaks only (and you know who you are). Everyone else: Stay far, far away.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 17, 2004

I'm not sure what it really is about, but it's one hell of a ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2004

A wild surrealism that brings to mind both the rigorous weirdness of David Lynch and the twisted dark comedy of Luis Bunuel

| Sep 16, 2004

Gozu is freakin' awesome.

Full Review | Sep 16, 2004

There is something compelling about the way this film sneakily taps into our collective psychosexual fantasies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 10, 2004

I don't think this is quite the film with which to begin a Miike investigation.

| Sep 10, 2004