Directed by Takashi Miike
This notorious film is not strictly a horror movie. The first three-quarters drags through a series of scenes establishing the hero as a lonely man looking for a woman. He uses his position auditioning film actresses to find himself the ideal woman. The climax is stunning and absolutely unnerving.
The Clive Barker school of horror that says that horror is just horrible things done to a human body. This film falls into that category. A narrow view of horror, it is still significant in it's merciless torment, never stooping to gore to what Stephen King calls "total gross out."