GOZU

In his most explicitly Lynchian nightmare, Takashi Mike cranks the “surreal” knob as high as it’ll go in 2003’s wildly imaginative GOZU.  What starts off as a yakuza shocker (with a mid-level enforcer ordered to dispose of his unstable mentor) quickly dissolves into grotesque visions of small-town strangers, impossible sexual appetites, body swaps, damsels in convertibles, brotherly love and everything but the kitchen sink.  Highly recommended for film freaks, Miike stans and the National Diary Council.