Oh my god! This is either a work of genius on the part of the director (seeing what he could put his actors through) or the work of a lunatic! He has made some truly amazing films in the past (Audition and 13 Assassins immediately spring to mind) and if you haven't seen these then you must.

I know that with a Mikke movie, you are going to get a little weirdness but this was off the charts.

I would put this next to 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' as a film you need to watch.

So bad, it's good.

But if you watch this and understand completely what it's about, could you let me know.

And that's putting it mildly. Far out could be another description that is fitting. Complettely off your (insert your own term of derangement here) would be another. Like it or not, the violence level is high. The nudity may not concern you as much (as there is little here to be seen), but you may have an issue with how people get treated in general. Than again, this wants to provoke and it doesn't take itself or anyone else for that matter seriously.

It's tough to describe what happens and there are a lot of "wtf" moments happening here. Some were so outraged that they left the cinema I was watching this in (was playing at a festival). You can't walk out at home (well you can, but you know what I mean), but I reckon you can push the stop or pause button to catch your breath. Or maybe stop watching completely. It's up to you, I cannot really recommend or disregard this for you, it will also depend on your mood most likely. Are you up for some crazy?

The Yakuza part is a lot easier to understand than the Apocalypse part. Kamiura (Lily Frankie) is the Yakuza for a small town, acting as a benevolent godfather. He used to be part of a larger syndicate. He is also a vampire. The syndicate comes after him with a Japanese version of Van Helsing and succeed in killing him, but he is able to pass on his vampire powers to Kagayama (Hayato Ichihara) a compassionate understudy. Kagayama doesn't know how to control himself and starts a chain reaction where everyone in the town gets bit. The people in the town decide they are all Yakuza and don't need to pay protection money to the real Yakuza. There is a theme that develops that the Yakuza are the real blood suckers who need to feed off of civilians to survive. There was a goblin in the film that used an ET finger touch while they played a riff from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Go Figure.

Now I was okay up with the film at this point and then we entered the head scratch phase where Japan's idea of a plague of frogs is different than the acceptable western thought. This was apparently the "apocalypse" aspect of the film which was silly. Now I would not have minded the silly ending if the film had started out that way.

Guide: F-bomb. Near male nudity. Brief rape scene.