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VICE GUIDE TO FILM, AGAIN ON IFC

Vice first met filmmaker Gaspar Noé last year in Kabukichō, a Yakuza-controlled sex district in Tokyo where, as the saying goes, you can get anything your disgusting black awful heart desires. We went to meet Gaspar on the advice of Harmony Korine, who told us stories of cameras hanging from streetlights, peeking out of gutters, and dangling precariously in toilet stalls, all in the service of Gaspar's vision for his latest film, Enter the Void. When we finally found the Argentine-born French native, who rose to infamy with films like Irreversible (2002) and I Stand Alone (1998), it was quickly revealed that he hadn't slept in days. We got along famously and spent the next few days traveling with him to all manner of establishments, from really over-the-top SM palaces to orgy and "companion" houses. A few months later we hung out with Gaspar at the premiere of Enter the Void in Paris. It received a ten-minute standing ovation. Oh, and by the way, we had our video cameras with us in Kabukichō and Paris and you can watch it all on our cinema-obsessed TV show, The Vice Guide to Film: Japan airing

this Friday June 18, 9:30 EST on IFC Canada

. Before that, make sure to catch the Iran episode and watch Shane embed himself with the people from the Academy Awards to sneak into the Iranian International Urban Film Festival and even accept an award for filmmaker Guy Maddin.