City of Lost Souls

Aroview: Another turbo-charged piece of blood-drenched lunacy from prolific genre stylist Takashi Miike, marked out by its Brazilian protagonist and set against the exotic backdrops of Rio and Okinawa as well as his home turf of Shinjuku.

Unleashed from jail, main man Mario (Teah) sets out to retrieve his Chinese moll from being deported, after which the couple encounter those nasty Yakuza and Triad gangs. A fast-paced actioner skewed in the director's inimitable style, with a bombast of images that alternate between the grotesque and the absurd.