Suicide Club

Can you show me the names of other movies that are similar to this one?

I love it.

uh, not a whole lot of movies just like it but some good wacky azn films include

battle royale, obv

tetsuo 2: body hammer - lotsa people love tetsuo (iron man) but the sequel is just as bonkers and funnier. same director's done a bunch of other berserko classics like a snake of june, gemini, tokyo fist.

ichii the killer - miike's always good for wacko nonsense, tho the misogyny makes some of his stuff hard going for ppl.

a tale of two sisters - korean movie kinda like what if david lynch directed ringu.

2ldk - two female roommates start getting on each other's nerves and end up in full-on brawl to the death, violent + funny

save the green planet - paranoid schizophrenic kidnaps and tortures a CEO he believes is secretly an alien invader. it is a comedy.

oh i love battle royale too

i have never seen any of those others, thanks

im an idiot when it comes to movies

i have seen like, 5 movies

PISTOL OPERA

Oldboy obvs.

Ichii the Killer is shit.

Haha, talk to Blake Lemon, Rox.

The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984)

The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide...

Even funnier than Suicide Club this one

What points of similarity are you looking for? Out of nowhere musical sequences? Or just twisted/violence asian movies?

I can't talk to Blake Lemon, Bryce!

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl is sort of similarly weird on the first count, but the mood is completely different from Suicide Club. You might also try Citizen Dog which has a amazing musical number like three minutes in, but is basically a screwball romantic comedy. Also Sion Sono's other movies (which I don't like quite as much as Suicide Club)--Noriko's Dinner Table. And yeah obv Chan Wook Park's stuff is pretty essential viewing. Miike's stuff is pretty hit or miss, but Audition might fit the bill here as well (Sukiyaki Western Django is another "offbeat" one of his that I like.)

I can't seem to find a good quality youtube bit of the Citizen Dog song, but this captures the gist of it, I guess:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfRAGmySORs&feature=related

katakuris?

warm water under a red bridge?

Ichii the Killer is shit.

it's not exactly a movie that elicits a lukewarm reaction

fudoh: the new generation

I turned off Ichi about 15 minutes in, just wasn't interested in the level of gore and torture (though normally I like "fun" gore in horror)... Audition and OldBoy on the other hand, are both great and uh... more surprising in the way they do those scenes (especially Audition). I never want to see either of those films a second time, though.

I really liked Katakuris!

The only good answer is Battle Royale.

That said, the most most most entertaining example of Japanese film madness is Gen Sekiguchi's Survive Style 5+, which includes Tadanobu Asano (of Ichi the Killer) and Vinnie Jones in the ensemble cast. An ensemble piece with 5 absurdist (and very funny) tales intertwining.

Survive Style 5+ is viewable in its entirety on Google video.

Hair Extensions, from the same director as Suicide Club, is uh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ucDY4hfvms

wow, that IS Chiaki Kuriyama