Well Charlotte and I have recently been watching a variety of films, well more of catching up on watching some more Asian films it seems. Anywho we watched Gozu today...well that was yesterday now. But yeah, it's by Takashi Miike, the guy who brought us Ichi, Audition and Dead or Alive. From watching Audition and Ichi I didn't think his stuff was that well weird. Ok Ichi was a bit twisted, but not so weird that you thought that would never happen. But today I watched Gozu and I found that it was completely different to anything I'd watched before.

Being a Yakuza film I expected the usual action, gangs and gun fights etc, but I was surprised that it wasn't. I should of guessed since Miike doesn't seem to go with full on Yakuza, and there's usually a mix of S&M in it or something along those lines. At first I found the film funny...well actually things made me chuckle all through-out the film, I feel Asian cinema can do that with me. Weird that I can get an emotion out of a film when I don't speak the language...well in my eyes I find it hard to feel if an actor is bad or not in a foreign film as you can't relate so easily.

So um back on Gozu, I don't really wanna spoil the film for people, but hmm ok well I found the whole Kakihara and his modded mouth in Ichi weird but in this there was an owner of a cafe who was rather feminine, not in look but clothes, then a guy who thought Yakuza dogs and cars were out to get him. And of course you can't forget the guy with not enough pigment in his skin on one side of his face, or the creepy brother and sister who owned the hotel also involving breast milk...eww, oh yeah and the um person with the cow head....But the weirdest part has to be that I've never thought I'd see a woman give birth to a grown man...was a bit um weird to say the least. Was amusing when he came out and went pop .

I don't really wanna spoil the film though, I mean someone who reads this might wanna watch it, maybe. Hmm yeah Gozu, weird film, my post had a point but doesn't seem to clear, I hope people have a clue of what I'm going on about ^^.