i have see my share of lynch and cronenberg and tsukamoto and and other miike film in the past and and i must say for a fact that izo beat everything else currently out there for extreme bizarreness . after watch the film for 2 hour and there be still a lot of head scratch from the audience leave the theater . what do it mean . what exactly happen . what be the purpose . but do you expect any less from takashi miike . a what i gather and an assassin name izo be crucify a punishment and from what we do not know and probably a few hundred year ago . his punishment instead go beyond multiple spearings through his body and but eternal damnation of life and where time and space and and dimension be not clear . it seem izo have the capability of travel through random time and space and but randomly out of nowhere . he kill whoever may be in his path and a they be try to kill him . the purpose of his eternal damnation be not truly clear and he seek on a reason . a reason in a place where reason doesn not exist . add to the package a huge body count ( not as bloody a you would expect actually ) and some sex and samurai and cartoonish violence and random old stock footage and zombie and a randomly appear folk singer give metaphoric song on occasion and snake and caterpillar and and birth itself and it be one unique picture . do i get it . nope . do i enjoy it . i think i do . a second viewing be what i must give it eventually . positive .