If you check out Takeshi Miike's films, I need to warn you, some of them are pretty disturbing (Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer...). Katakuris is a good suggestion though. It's actually a remake of the Korean dark comedy QUIET FAMILY, by Kim Ji-woon (who also directed one of my favorite horror films: A TALE OF TWO SISTERS).
I would recommend SAVE THE GREEN PLANET, by Jang Joon-Hwan. Korean filmmakers love to mix tragedy and comedy, naïveté and violence, although sometimes with confusing results (Gwoemul). Another good film that mixes genres is MEMORIES OF MURDER, a Se7en-type thriller with a lot of dark humor and social commentary.
Also, you should definitely see OLDBOY, Park Chan-wook's best film in my opinion, although not at all like Cyborg.
For more info on Korean cinema, check out koreanfilm.org
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Zarathustras_Crown
14 years ago
See, Miike is an acquired taste...Ichi for example, loved it...but I didn't find it disturbing because the violence is SO over the top that it crosses into "Evil Dead" almost comedy-style violence (I always remember the scene where a complete and untouched face flies out of a room and slides down a wall or when that chick tries to hit on him and he off's her...bloody classic). I did however find Miike's "Audition" to be monumentally disturbing, probably his lowest key movie...the violence is extreme but it's limited to a certain section and is just brutally uncomfortable. I remember actually feeling sick in that scene where the chick pukes in a bowl and feeds her mutilated dog-man-in-the-bag "thing" with it.
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