Gozu

Derivative isn't a word normally associated with the films of highly idiosyncratic Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, but the most surprising thing about his 2003 made-for-video yazuka nightmare is just how much inspiration Miike seems to have taken from other filmmakers. The premise could just as easily belong to one of Takeshi Kitano's melancholy meditations on aging gangsters and the violence that binds brethren in crime. A young yakuza named Minami (Hideki Sone) is ordered by the boss of the Azamawari clan (Renji Ishibashi) to drive his dangerously delusional mentor, Ozaki (Sho Aikawa), to the "yakuza dump" near Nagoya and retire the older man from service. Once in N...