I absolutely love Miikes work and have watched a lot of his movies. I'll have to say they`re all great but I think the yakuza/gangster movies (e.g. Graveyard of Honor) are a little bit weaker than most of the movies he has made (still great, but theyre missing this special "tick") . Usually if Miike is written on it, I must have it. The funny stuff (Zebraman; Katakuris), horror (Gozu - Yakuza Horror Theatre; One missed call) and... well its hard to put most of them into genres so I stop it here. Iam reall looking forward to watch Sukiyaki Western Django, his tribute to the Italian Spaghetti western, with a lot of japanese actors speaking english with a really hard to understand accent.
What freaks me out a little bit is that Hollywood discovered his movies and already remade One missed call and just like ring, grudge and all the others I refuse to watch it and hope they'll leave the rest of his films alone.
About the "gross, sick and fucked up" things in his movies, well, I think thats what makes them different and its exactly why I watch them. I don't want to see movies where I can tell from the start what is going to happen and how its going to end. And thats why especially Audition screws you really over in the second half. Who would expect whats happening when watching it the first time? Besides that, japan is always a little different, with everything
