Gozu

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Movie
German title Gozu
Original title 極 道 恐怖 大 劇場 牛頭 ＧＯＺＵ
Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2003
length 130 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Takashi Miike
script Sakichi Sato
production Kana Koido ,
Harumi Sone
music Kōji Endō
camera Kazunari Tanaka
cut Yasushi Shimamura
occupation

Gozu ( Japanese 極 道 恐怖 大 劇場 牛頭 ＧＯＺＵ , Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu ) is a Japanese fictional film by director Takashi Miike from 2003. The title means something in German "big yakuza horror cinema: Gozu", whereby Gozu is a beef-headed guardian demon of Buddhist hell .

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Ozaki and his younger loyal subordinate Minami are members of the Azamawari clan, a criminal yakuza network. However, Ozaki has been freaking out lately, sees hostile yakuzas everywhere, and his strange behavior makes the organization's patriarchal leader, the white-clad oyabun, uncomfortable. In a harmless little Chihuahua , for example, he sees a "yakuza attack dog" during a clan meeting and brutally kills it in front of the shocked owner and his stunned clan boss. He notices that Ozaki is no longer sustainable for the organization due to his loss of reality and gives Minami the order to kill his "brother" - his Yakuza superior (Japanese: "Aniki") - especially since he was already planning to overthrow the godfather . Despite some doubts, Minami, who once saved Ozaki's life, drives to the Nagoya city ​​dump to execute his Aniki. But on the way to the traditional execution he dies unexpectedly in a traffic accident.

When he arrived in town, he immediately tried to contact the clan chief by phone, went into a restaurant and left Ozaki's body in the back seat of his car. His body soon disappears mysteriously and Minami then starts a search. The place and its bizarre residents soon turn out to be a nightmare. Minami gets into extremely absurd situations, for example when she witnesses his sadistic hostel mother alternatively produce milk by filling her breast milk into bottles. The yakuza finds support in a strange freak of the local Shiroyama gang: Nosechi.

Nosechi leads him on the trail of a man who visited the restaurant at the time of the crime and then spent the night in the hostel, which is managed by a pair of siblings, exactly one floor above him. He then decides to spend the night in the stranger's room in the hope that he will come back. In a surreal daydream, the yakuza receives a message that leads him to a remote junkyard. Ozaki, obviously dead, is waiting there in the form of a young and attractive woman; at least now, reality and fantasy of Minami merge.

Minami travels back to his boss with the young woman to inform him about Ozaki's whereabouts. The latter cannot believe the confused story, almost doubts Minami's mind when "Ozaki" in the form of a woman enters the meeting and pretends to be Sakiko looking for work. Yakuza boss Azamawari immediately succumbed to her external charms and hired her for a private rendezvous in his apartment. After a while, the jealous Minami storms his godfather's apartment and a scuffle breaks out between him and the Yakuza boss. In order to get an erection, Azamawari had inserted a metal soup ladle into his anus (like an anal plug, so to speak ). After the scuffle with Minami, Azamawari falls to the floor, and when he falls, the soup ladle penetrates even deeper into his anus. Minami takes a floor lamp whose glass bulb was broken and leads the live filament to the soup ladle - Azamawari dies of an electric shock.

At the end of the film, we see the uptight Minami making love with the young woman, when suddenly his brother Ozaki is born in pain by the young woman.

Reviews

“A monstrously exuberant story full of sex and crime, ghostly apparitions and surprising twists and turns, which after a cautious beginning picks up speed. Much in Miike's film is reminiscent of David Lynch, David Cronenberg and Aki Kaurismäki. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gozu. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 12, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used