The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Anyone here into the films of amazingly prolific and strange director Takashi Miike? (some films he has directed: Audition, Fudoh: The New Generation, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q, the Dead or Alive trilogy, Gozu, the Black Society Trilogy, Full Metal Yakuza, etc.) If so, what is your favorite of his works, and why?

I've only seen Audition, which was pretty cool, fairly run of the mill as Japanese horror movies go, that weird ghost story with rust poisoning feel if you know what I mean, but the last 15 minutes was powerful/emotionally blunting.

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I should get my buddy Tom to get on the boards. (The Tom that came with me to SF Austin.) Miike is his favorite director, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's seen all of those. (I know for a fact he's seen Ichi, Q, and Audition.)

Gozu is great. It was surprisingly like a David Lynch movie, but stranger.

I love LOVE his shit. Too bad for me (and Glenn) that we live in such a bumblescum backwoods town with no "cool" video places. Blockbuster is about it...

I have a question about Ichi The Killer, though. I watched it at someone's house and I only saw the first hour...does it get better? Because the first hour was BORING compared to Dead Or Alive (but that ending in Dead or Alive...wtf?!?!). But everyone jocks on Ichi, and the only way for me to see it would be to order it and buy it without seeing it.

Justincombustion wrote:but that ending in Dead or Alive...

Best ending ever.

Ichi the Killer was innnntense. I still don't know if I enjoyed it or not. Did Miike do Sharkskin Man and Butterfly Hip Girl? Or was that someone else. That movie was really good, but I didn't know it was until the very end.