Izo Horrible Piece of Work!!!!!
First of all I will start by saying people are going to reply to this saying "oh Takeshi Miike so different you didn’t understand it, it’s to deep for you, watch a die hard film".
I love his previous work the same with a similar director David Lynch both good directors there work thought provoking etc. however this film was terrible it started well, but please I find it so funny when people write a review saying something like this "I enjoyed this film so much so thought provoking but didn’t understand any of it" how stupid is that people like things they don’t understand because they want to come across as intelligent or deep thinking.
having worked for Mitsubishi for 2 years and am currently studying Japanese at university I can speak the language pretty well and I understand there structure of grammar well in this film there was a high level of Japanese therefore some of the higher level stuff can not be directly translate to English there is your first problem, this film is so dialogue based which is a big reason people find it hard to understand, the philosophy was poorly executed on film having a guy kill people in fact everyone for no real reason other then he needs to find a path he’s lost etc.
the camera work was poor the cast good but poorly used (like the great Beat) the budget was huge and the effects were poor, one of the reasons film like Audition and Rabbits were so good is the budgets were so low and needed strong dialogue and good direction this film had none of this. BEFORE YOU START SAYING THE SCRIPT WAS GOOD HALF OF IT WAS TRANSLATED POORLY SO IF YOU LIKE THE TRANSLATION DONT THANK MIIKE AS HE DIDNT INTERPRETE AN ENGLISH SCRIPT.
The only person who I can imagine to love this love is a native Japanese speaker who likes samurai revenge films which apply the views of the philosopher Nietzsche
By the way I’m a fan of miike he has done for surreal film what Wong kai wai has done for love stories but been a fan he should have done better with a strong cast and big budget