Pathifnder Pictures
Directed by Takashi Miike
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Pathfinder)
A Japanese yakuza (gangster) is going slightly made, and his boss orders that he be killed by his very own partner. The reluctant younger gangster isn't really up to killing his friend, but ends up doing it anyway in a car accident. Then, the body disappears while he is visiting a nearby restaurant. He spends the rest of the movie trying to find it and figure out what happened. It is a strange, surreal journey, virtually without plot. Unlike Lynch, to whom Miike is often compared, this comes off as pretentious and random. Weird just to be weird. Still, if you swing often enough you will occasionally get some hits, and Miike does deliver some awfully unsettling and strange moments. Then again, there is the breast milk. And the dog. And the cow's head.
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