“Gozu grows up to be a man, the village in the song, ‘I’m sorry I was born as a man, a cow man.’ The song goes, ‘I’m sorry I was born, but I cannot give you a meal, because I’m a man.’ It was a song about being a man, because he cannot give the meal to anyone else. It’s a really sad song because even though he was born as a cow, he cannot produce the milk, that you cannot please everyone. And this is in the film, Gozu is a symbol of the film. But Gozu doesn’t really tell you what the Gozu is. So it’s a song about ‘I’m sorry I didn’t give you any food,’ which is what the movie’s about.”
(Takashi Miike)
quote for a new film studies book, Incoherent Explanations of Fascinating Movies
(via takashi-miike-fandom)
