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'Miike Takashi and his Ichi the Killer scriptwriter have come up with a splendid, slow-burn Yakuza ghost story. Mob lieutenant Ozaki has lost it. His boss decides he must be put down, and delegates Minami to escort him to the yakuza dump in Nagoya. It's an onerous job for Minami ... but things look up when Ozaki appears to peg out in the car. But then his corpse goes missing, and Minami faces the challenge of finding it to authenticate Ozaki's demise. His increasingly nightmarish quest brings him up against not only the scary coffee-shop owner but also the hyper-lactating manageress of an inn, the spirit Gozu (which has the body of a man and the head of a cow and is given to licking those it haunts) and a very unusual case of transgendered reincarnation. Business as usual for Miike, then.' International Film Festival Rotterdam