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''Gozu'' is probably the flat-out strangest, most [[Mind Screw|mind-bending]] movie from [[Takashi Miike]]; a Japanese auteur who has made built his repuations on movies which are some combination of [[Rule of Symbolism|bizarre symbolism]], [[Black Comedy]], [[Darker and Edgier]], and [[Gorn]].▼
▲'''Gozu''' is probably the flat-out strangest, most [[Mind Screw|mind-bending]] movie from [[Takashi Miike]]; a Japanese auteur who has made built his repuations on movies which are some combination of [[Rule of Symbolism|bizarre symbolism]], [[Black Comedy]], [[Darker and Edgier]], and [[Gorn]].
Starting ostensibly as yet another [[Yakuza]] movie, it takes a major turn into the surreal very soon into the story. Yakuza junior member Minami is ordered by the head of the gang to take his increasingly erratic and unstable senior member Ozaki out to a remote location, where he can be disposed of by an allied "cleaner". On the way, Ozaki dies mysteriously; and the story takes a turn for the [[Surreal Horror|decidedly surreal]], when Ozaki's body disappears in a nearly-deserted, run-down suburb of Nagoya. Nothing appears to make much sense after that, either to the viewer or the protagonist. Minami endures a number of episodic, and confusing, adventures, and meets a cast of highly deranged characters -- including a middle-aged woman who bottles and sells her breast milk; a huge, minotaur-like being wearing baggy underwear; several crossdressers who run the town's cafe; an unreliable guide with an odd skin condition; and a beautiful, enigmatic woman who claims to be his brother Ozaki.
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'''Warning:''' Due to the nature of the story, the list below may contain '''spoilers'''.
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Several of the Nagoya denizens, particularly the guide.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Although solid for most of the movie, the fourth wall is broken briefly in one of the very rare examples (possibly the only one) where the break is both comedic and oddly disturbing.
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