what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

we get it miike. your movies are batshit inane. bravo.

Like David Lynch, only good.

I'm sorry, I just don't get this. I feel like it's weird just for the sake of being weird. And though I laughed and cringed at different times it was more a case of me feeling completely uneasy with this flick and everything that went on in it than anything else. Maybe I'm just not ready for this Japanese "artist".

bastante perturbadora, al menos a mi me dejo con los nervios de punta, el final es bastante bueno como siempre, miike me dejo satisfecho con otra grande

"...good, dirty fun."

"Gozu is entertaining and lively, but it lacks the focus of earlier Miike masterpieces..."

Like you would expect from Miike, this is filled with bizarre and surreal images, but they lose their potential power when they're seemingly not connected to an overall theme or even suggested message. I get that it to a certain degree is about repressed homosexuality, but it has nothing to say on the matter.

Crazy...

Of Miike Takashi's numerous horror flicks, Gozu stands among the strangest and most graphic. Despite its narrative flaws, the visceral awkwardness of Takashi's vision is felt within every frame, leading to one of the most insane conclusions every captured on film.

A cautionary tale against...? Who knows. I'd be surprised if Miike knew either.

Dealing with a uniquely Japanese brand of paranoia, this movie punishes you while you wait for the payoff.

Lynchesque. That's a compliment.

Should have been right up my alley, but it wasn't. Some of the scenes are awesome -- the last 10 minutes, the cow-man, a couple other scenes -- but I felt it dragged! I'm sure this movie is saying something... someone said repressed homosexuality and I can see that, but I had a hard time getting into it. Not because of the weirdness, just because that for every weird moment, there was a couple not so fantastic moments. Oh well, original and twisted... worth a watch.

I guess if there's one thing to take away from this movie its, don't have sex with your brother.

Cheap Lynch/Cronenberg rip off.

Hey look it's a bunch of weird stuff happening without any reason to care and none of which will really be explained. It was atmospheric at times, but mostly it just felt point- and aimless. Does get a few bonus points for drooling man-cow, the worst way to die captured on film (it involves a ladle) and a hilariously twisted birth.

A little disappointing given its legendary reputation for being the weirdest movie ever made. It's way, way too long, with bad pacing and huge sections that could have simply been chopped out (the screenplay was written in the span of a week, so I can't say I'm surprised), so that what results isn't a snappy, in-your-face blast of weirdness, but a series of long, boring stretches of not much with some weird shit in between. I did like it for the most part, but it could have been so much better.

"Unlike Ichi the Killer and the considerably shorter Visitor Q, Gozu's random acts of hysteria don't seem to add up to anything." - Ed Gonzalez

I've enjoyed most of the Miike films I've seen, but something about this one just didn't click with me.

This movie is nearly perfect. It alienates you to the point where you like it. Much like Ichi, don't watch it if you feel sick.

Has some of the most insanely twisted scenes I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen a lot of them. That's all that needs to be said, really. That and the man who sits in the restaurant on the phone insisting that it was, in fact, hot the other day and he was, in fact, wearing a t-shirt (t-shirt time! Incidentally a completely freaking hilarious scene.) makes this movie very much worth watching. To put it simply, it's a very Miike film.

If you read about how this movie was made before you watch it, the experience will be 10x better. This movie is very funny, and a little bit on the disturbing side.

Great stuff, really kept me second guessing what could possibly come next. And Miike has really pulled together some good visual direction here. His stuff's sometimes flat, but this had a great balance of film versus video look.

People seem to think it's good just because it's Japanese or something