I went to see this movie when it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year (at the time it had a very limited distribution).
5 months later the film was just distributed wide. The advance DVD copy came out last month (very few extras blah blah).
If you haven't watched it yet, it's better you don't admit it here...because this is probably the best movie of the year. The only way this was going to get beat was if Miike made Izo amazing...and that was just mehh...so heres the winner.