10 Great Asian Horror Movies You Probably Haven't Seen
4. Gozu
Gozu is a David Lynch film as done by the one and only Takashi Miike. If that name is familiar to you, then you probably can already tell this is going to be a weird one.
Like Suicide Club, any attempt to describe the plot of this film would make you sound crazy. Put it this way, the first scene involves a man brutally killing a chihuahua claiming that it was trained for the sole purpose of killing Yakuza, and it only gets weirder from there.
In fact, it might be helpful to just give a rundown on some of the stuff that happens in this movie. A Yakuza kingpin dies after the kitchen utensil he shoved up his ass is electrocuted, a man gives birth to himself but he also doesn't, and there's a ghost or two thrown in for good measure. Somehow, it makes just as little sense in context.
Miike has done many horror movies in his time, but the reason Gozu takes a spot on this list over his others is because it is a truly one-of-a-kind movie. It's the type of film that feels like a fever dream, one which you aren't even sure happened to begin with.