Plot:Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.
If you are into strange cinema..the type of bizarre cinema that has you head-scratching intensely at the insanity on display then this is the flick for you.
If you must draw comparisons to Lynch, then I suppose Wild at Heart - with it's desolate landscapes, jarring shifts from parody to horror, and the freewheeling structure of the narrative - and perhaps even Mulholland Drive - with it's homosexual love story and continual shifts in mood and tone - are the obvious choices. The reason I usually try to avoid the Lynch comparisons when recommending this film to my friends and family is simply because I feel it sets up unfair expectations and comparisons that should never really be there when first approaching a work by Miike Takeshi.Regardless, the film will most probably be enjoyed by the kind of viewers familiar with directors like Lynch, Cronenberg, Gilliam etc.although the obvious audience will always be the Miike die-hards.
The more the more I examine this film, the more I love it. It's yet another brilliant Miike film laden with dreamlike imagery that gives it weight and power. This makes it a great match with Miike's "Visitor Q," another masterpiece of great symbolic kick and potent, unforgettable imagery.
It obviously won't be a film for everyone. Like I said, some familiarity with Miike's style will be required beforehand.
3.5/5
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