Gozu

Director Takashi Miike’s reputation rests on his bizarre visual imagery and his mindbogglingly prolific career—though Gozu only came out in Japan last year, the Japanese gonzo has already finished seven other films. So it might be too much to ask that everything that happens in this movie makes logical sense. Nominally a cross between an atmospheric horror film like The Ring and a gangster thriller, Gozu follows Minami, a hapless, low-level yakuza who’s been assigned to kill his insane mentor and manages to lose the corpse in the very weird criminal underground of the city of Nagoya. Further plot explanation would be fruitless, but we’ll tell you that it does involve a minotaur-like demon named Gozu (Japanese for “cow head”). Like the work of Eugène Ionesco, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch—like dreams, in other words—there is a strange and disturbing art here that can’t be denied even if it can’t be understood. 612-331-3134; www.mnfilmarts.org