“To say Gozu steps beyond the bounds of sanity is rather like saying that Jeffrey Dahmer had unusual dietary habits.”
- Jamie Russell, BBC

One of the strangest pieces of Japanese cinema ever filmed, Gozu is a surreal and visceral film of cartoonish perversity from Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer).

Minami is a low-level yakuza ordered to dispatch his eccentric boss and closest friend. After the mysterious disappearance the body Minami finds begins a search through an increasingly bizarre town, and seemingly his own mind. He is pursued by a lactating woman, a transvestite coffee shop owner, an American who reads Japanese dialogue off giant cue cards, and the minotaur-headed Gozu.

Detached from genre and thoroughly unpredictable, Gozu is a stand-out in Miike’s filmography. Nightmarish and hilarious at the same time, the film weaves themes of love, loyalty and re-birth with a demented post-logic only Miike could imagine.