Gozu Critic Reviews

The latest and most creatively unhinged film from director Takashi Miike.Read the full review

Unclassifiable cult figure Takashi Miike's films invariably have their share of weirdness and perversity, but Gozu arguably outweirds all previous efforts in the prolific Japanese director's eclectic canon. Read the full review

The film unfolds as if it were a dream in which taboo subconscious urges surface symbolically as in a Dali painting, yet everything takes place in everyday settings. Read the full review

It somehow feels richly, hilariously real, even -- at its most bizarre -- familiar. Read the full review

Although most definitely an acquired taste, the David Lynchian Gozu delivers the goods in dripping, gooey gobs.Read the full review

Mr. Miike is best known in the United States for horror films like "Audition" and "Ichi the Killer." Gozu, for all its extremity, is a more relaxed, less disturbing picture. Its dreamy disconnection is reminiscent of David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive," but it is, if anything, even more hermetic and dissociated. Read the full review

Miike has served up some of the most dumbfounding images in contemporary cinema.Read the full review

Miike's fans, those used to his strange ways, will certainly find Gozu an amusing addition to the oeuvre. All others will be bewildered beyond expression. Read the full review

Not until the last 20 minutes does Gozu come fully alive. A man has sex with a seductive beauty, who then gives birth to...well, let's just say it's a sight that may take time to fight its way out of your head.Read the full review