It’s hard to sum up the career of Nicolas Cage, an actor who has embraced every type of genre while blurring reality and myth along the way.

They said it couldn’t be done – turns out they were wrong. From Ulysses to Naked Lunch, we look at 8 films based on novels once described as ‘unfilmable’.

Those of a sensitive disposition please look away now as we take an eye-opening look at six of the most extreme, ultra-violent films from Japan.