Detective Story

This film is shocking and succinct masterpiece, and honestly one of Miike’s better work. Per usual the piece is quite shocking and gruesome in some scenes, yet Miike leans heavily into this absurd comedy which gives this polarizing look at both gruesome murder and a hilarious protagonist. If one is looking for a pure shock piece, then one is better off watching Visitor Q or Audition. This piece is unique unto itself in Miike’s works and is more comparable to Ichi the Killer and the Happiness of the Katakuri’s in its truly animated charachters.

This film is shocking and succinct masterpiece, and honestly one of Miike’s better work. Per usual the piece is quite shocking and gruesome in some scenes, yet Miike leans heavily into this absurd comedy which gives this polarizing look at both gruesome murder and a hilarious protagonist. If one is looking for a pure shock piece, then one is better off watching Visitor Q or Audition. This piece is unique unto itself in Miike’s works and is more comparable to Ichi the Killer and the Happiness of the Katakuri’s in its truly animated charachters.

28th Miike Movie! 

This is a very strange one. Detective dark comedy movie? Don’t think I’ve seen anything like it before. There is an ABSURD amount of blood in this even for a Miike movie holy shit I love it. Weird movie but I don’t have too much to say about it though sorry 😭 well I will say it’s OBSESSED with showing you close ups of live maggots so have fun with that! It’s entertaining and a pretty decent film from Miike but the last half of the movie definitely brings down the score a bit for me because it goes on for a while but it’s a pretty decent movie overall just doesn’t really stick out all too much from his other movies in my opinion. Very strange ending too, not like a Dead or Alive level ending but a strange ending regardless.

28th Miike Movie! 

This is a very strange one. Detective dark comedy movie? Don’t think I’ve seen anything like it before. There is an ABSURD amount of blood in this even for a Miike movie holy shit I love it. Weird movie but I don’t have too much to say about it though sorry 😭 well I will say it’s OBSESSED with showing you close ups of live maggots so have fun with that! It’s entertaining and a pretty decent film from Miike but the last half of the movie definitely brings down the score a bit for me because it goes on for a while but it’s a pretty decent movie overall just doesn’t really stick out all too much from his other movies in my opinion. Very strange ending too, not like a Dead or Alive level ending but a strange ending regardless.