Aaaaand you’re welcome for the nightmare.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

Tolja they were gonna do it.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Wow! … Put it in me.”

They’re totally gonna do it.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Whew … I almost ‘blasted off’ without you.”

Does it make you feel better to know that he’s about to come to a  — pardon me — nasty end? (I am so ashamed.)

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“I can’t get it up without this. … Oh, baby!”

Now you know what the ladle collection is for.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Hard”

The old man’s ladle collection.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Shower?”

“The scent of soap or of me. Which do you prefer?”

Ozaki, now calling herself Sakiko, makes a move on the old man of the Yakuza crew.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Amore…”

On the way back to the city, Minami and maybe-female-Ozaki stop in a hotel. In the night, Minami hears speech coming from Ozaki’s hoo-ha. I guess that would be a Vagina Monologue, eh?

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“…like the first time you masturbated you used photos of dogs mating…”

The woman who claims to be Ozaki tries to convince Minami by telling him close secrets only Ozaki knows.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“Lovely. This is your brother? Here.”

Minami finds Ozaki. Sort of. He has been “pressed” in a Yakuza disposal facility. The skin is preserved, and Minami recognizes it. The tattoos, it would seem to me, would be better identification than the penis.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

This is just a pretty sunset with the silhouettes of smokestacks and a giant Ferris Wheel. It’s in the movie, I suspect it’s just something Miike saw and said, “Hey, shoot that, it’s pretty.”

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

Instead of his brother, Minami is visited by Gozu, the mythological guardian of Hell’s gates. Gozu has the head of a cow (not a bull) and the body of a man. And, apparently, tightie-whities.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

The old-lady innkeeper has a cottage industry on the side that uses her unique … ability.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.

“I’m  scared…” No wonder. Things have not been going well for him since he started helping Minami.

Gozu: (極道恐怖大劇場　牛頭　ＧＯＺＵ, Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu, literally: Grand Theatre of Perversion and Fear: Cow’s Head) (2003) Japanese, directed by Takashi Miike.