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Originally Posted by ILOVEJAPAN

Ok as a write this remember I like the manga versions of all of these better (except MPD PHSYCO)

You MUST read the ICHI THE KILLER if you liked the movie. I need to warn you, you will feel actual pain just by looking at the pictures (remember the part where Kakihara was about to split that guts penis in half? The SHOW that in the manga OW OW OW OW OW!!!!!)

The first two Tomie movies are TERRIBLE trust me though you wont be disapionted with the rest of the movies, yes they do continue to have alot of J-horror cliches (the 4th movie is even directed by Takashi Shimizu) but by the 3rd movie the sereise manages to have some good gory scenes and special effects. The 3rd movie is full of gore, and the 4th and 5th only have a little gore but its really realistic at the parts where they do. As for the 6th and 7th...they are barley worth seeing....

I completley agree about UZUMAKI

When it comes to battle royal I didnt feel like you were suposed to like the characters...that's like the whole point...it was like lord of the frlies...people are evil...blahblaha that kinnda thing...

Wait, Takashi Miike blurred out the gore????? Why the hell would he do that???? I though he didnt beleive in holding back! I thought it was just because it was going to air on television! Thats so stupid!

About MPD Psycho, this is from an interview in the book:"Agitator - The Cinema of Takashi Miike" ->

"Tom Mes: Several scenes in MPD-Psycho were censored by way of a mosaic pattern. But quite a few of these seemed to be in somewhat random places, covering up things that didn't seem remotely offensive. This made me think that it was you who added them, rather than being the result of actual censorhip.

Takashi Miike: Yes, it was me. From the start I thought about how big to make those mosaics and where to put them. In the end result, there was nothing at all underneath the scrambled patterns in some scenes. Many people feel negatively about the technique of covering things up, but I think it's a very Japanese form of expression, one that can be attractive even. I thought it would be fun to be in the position of those people who have to censor films and TV series, who decide where and when to put these cover-ups. From a technical point of view, I don't really have a negative attitude towards it. Also, from the moment things are covered up, we are stimulated and we start to imagine things that are even more grotesque or more beautiful than what was originally there. I wanted to provoke that kind of imagination in people, which I think is a very cinematic technique."

(Cut and pasted from a quote here)

ILOVEJAPAN, I think you are a little more into the gore factor than I am, which is totally fine. I can see why you would like BATTLE ROYALE the manga more than the movie. I think in the manga the shock is in the gore, but in the movie the shock is in the fact that a group of high-school freshmen are forced to kill each other. The manga emphasizes the fact that they are the worst class in all of Japan, and the backstories prove that, but the movie doesn't emphasize that making us feel more sympathy for the students, and evoking more of an emotional response. I think both versions tell a similar story in different ways and with different results.