Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) - Tokitoshi Shiota, Hideki Sone, Shô Aikawa, Takashi Miike
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Movie propaganda
Minami (Hideki Sone), a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki (Shô Aikawa) who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua he sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.
Theatrical propaganda posters
Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film crime horror Japan Yakuza murder corpse
Persons of interest
- Hideki Sone .... Minami
- Shô Aikawa .... Ozaki
- Kimika Yoshino .... Female Ozaki
- Shôhei Hino .... Nose
- Keiko Tomita .... Innkeeper
- Harumi Sone .... Innkeeper's Brother
- Renji Ishibashi .... Boss
- Kenichi Endô
- Kanpei Hazama
- Masaya Katô
- Tamio Kawaji
- Susumu Kimura
- Hiroyuki Nagato
- Hitoshi Ozawa
- Kazuyoshi Ozawa
- Sakichi Satô .... Coffee Shop Manager
- Tokitoshi Shiota .... Gozu
- Tetsurô Tanba
- Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
- Sakichi Satô .... Screenwriter
- Takashi Miike .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) official movie site
- Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) film production notes (.rtf)
- Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) QuickTime movie trailers
- Awards and film festivals:
- Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2004: Won: Silver Raven (Sakichi Satô - For the screenplay)
- Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival 2003: Won: Best Asian Film (Takashi Miike), Jury Award (Takashi Miike)
- Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival 2003: Won: Best Visual Effects, Special Prize of the Jury (Takashi Miike); Nominated: Best Film (Takashi Miike)
- NB: Japanese dialogue with English language subtitles
- Studios and distributors:
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
The crime, horror, Japan movie Gozu (Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu) is directed by Takashi Miike and stars Tokitoshi Shiota, Hideki Sone, Shô Aikawa.
Media intelligence (DVD)
- Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
- Languages: Japanese
- Picture: Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1
- Special features:
- Documentaries: Behind the scenes
- Trailers: Theatrical
- Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English captions, English closed captions, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Government security censorship classification
R 18+ (High level sexual activity and horror themes)
Surveillance time
129 minutes (2:09 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD retail: Undated February 2008
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