Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu 2003

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: An undisciplined mess. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: For Miike freaks only (and you know who you are). Everyone else: Stay far, far away. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Not your average midnight movie but something more hermetic. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Miike is sometimes ill-served by his scripts, but here screenwriter Sakichi Sato never flags, coming up with one gloriously grotesque incident after another. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There isn't much that Miike won't throw into his nightmare mix, yet the movie is almost prankish in its slack indulgence. Read more

David Chute, L.A. Weekly: The various disruptions Miike visits upon his stories, and upon his audience, serve mainly to focus attention on the manipulating intelligence behind the scenes. They're a fancy way of yelling, 'Look at me!' Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The hallucinatory shock opera builds to a climax that will widen even the most jaded eyes. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Having challenged his audience with ultraviolent movies, Japanese shockmeister Takashi Miike throws us for a real loop with a screwball comedy. Granted, we're talking about a guy who considers squashed puppies hilarious. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: For Mr. Miike's fans, it will be an indispensable compendium of outtakes and sketches. For others, it will be a mystifying and provocative introduction to his unnerving, wanton and prodigious imagination. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: There is something compelling about the way this film sneakily taps into our collective psychosexual fantasies. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Plays like the rantings of a madman, but a pretty entertaining madman. Read more

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David Rooney, Variety: Despite being overlong and lumbered with some clunky broad humor, the sharply lensed film remains compelling, driven by the curiosity of seeing what the director will throw in next. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Splendidly entertaining. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Makes little sense on paper. As a film, however, it somehow feels richly, hilariously real, even -- at its most bizarre -- familiar. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: I don't think this is quite the film with which to begin a Miike investigation. Read more