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is a 2003 Japanese comedy horror film by Takashi Miike. ==Plot== Ozaki (Aikawa), a mentally unstable yakuza, kills a chihuahua outside a restaurant after becoming convinced that it is actually an attack dog trained to kill gangsters. Seeing Ozaki as a security risk, the head of the Azamawari yakuza clan (Ishibashi) orders fellow underling Minami (Sone) to kill him and dispose of his body in a company depot.

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6.8

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

Released: 2003-07-11130 minDir: Takashi MiikeHorror, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, MysteryBudget: $250,000

Cast

  • Show Aikawa as Ozaki
  • Yūta Sone as Minami
  • Kimika Yoshino as Female Ozaki
  • Shōhei Hino as Nose
  • Keiko Tomita as Innkeeper
  • Harumi Sone as Innkeeper's Brother

Themes

  • nightmare
  • gangster
  • yakuza
  • mission of murder
  • disappearance
  • anarchic comedy
  • gokudo

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Ratings

IMDb

6.9/10

13,382 votes

Year
2003
Runtime
129 min
Genres
Crime, Drama, Horror

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Key facts

Film.name
Gozu
Film.image
Gozu_Poster.jpg
Film.caption
Promotional release poster
Film.director
Takashi Miike
Film.writer
Sakichi Sato
Film.music
Kôji Endô
Film.cinematography
Kazunari Tanaka
Film.editing
Yasushi Shimamura
Film.distributor
Cinema Epoch
Film.runtime
129 minutes
Film.country
Japan
Film.language
Japanese
Film.gross
$58,202

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Wikidata facts

Duration
130
FilmAffinity ID
876724
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publication date
2003-07-11
title
極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 GOZU
review score
58/100
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is a 2003 Japanese comedy horror film by Takashi Miike. ==Plot== Ozaki (Aikawa), a mentally unstable yakuza, kills a chihuahua outside a restaurant after becoming convinced that it is actually an attack dog trained to kill gangsters. Seeing Ozaki as a security risk, the head of the Azamawari yakuza clan (Ishibashi) orders fellow underling Minami (Sone) to kill him and dispose of his body in a company depot.

Minami is reluctant to kill Ozaki but does so when he pushes Ozaki to the ground in an attempt to stop him from killing an innocent woman who Ozaki mistook for an assassin. After finding the road he was driving along mysteriously replaced with a large lake, Minami enters a coffee shop to find a phone. Minami is given a complimentary Chawanmushi that makes him violently throw up in the bathroom and returns to discover that Ozaki's body is missing. When he asks the people in the town, he finds most of them apprehensive and uncooperative. He then sets out to explore the nearly-deserted, run-down suburb of Nagoya in a desperate attempt to recover the body, only to find himself caught in a series of increasingly surreal situations. He meets several strange characters including an elderly innkeeper obsessed with her breast milk, her strange brother who can supposedly channel spirits, a waiter who died three years ago in a car accident, and the titular Gozu, a mysterious man with the head of a cow, who appears to him in a dream. Minami tracks Ozaki to a junk yard, where he is told that he was murdered and turned into a skin suit. He returns to his car to find a girl (Yoshino) who claims to be Ozaki. After sharing intimate details of their life, as well as one of his dreams, he believes her.

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