Takashi Miike

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Fudoh - The Next Generation (1996): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara, Kenji Takano, Marie Jinno; Possibly the first film that gave the Western world an inkling of dir. Miike's unhinged worldview, investing a tale of yakuza vengeance with surreal,…
Young Thugs - Innocent Blood (1997): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka; Gangster shenanigans with cult dir. Takashi, this time taking a more measured approach to the story of four young friends who drift together and…
Bird People In China, The (Chûgoku no chôjin) (1998): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi; Visually rich and accomplished drama set around a parallel journey by a businessman and a yakuza gangster to a remote Chinese highland in search of a…
Young Thugs - Nostalgia (1998): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka; Apparently dir. Miike's (AUDITION) favourite of his own films, this semi–autobiographical rites of passage tale is a prequel to YOUNG THUGS…
Audition (1999): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina; An almost–masterpiece of the macabre that sets up and sustains itself brilliantly with a restrained pace and jewel of a premise, then careens…
Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha) (1999): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Ren Osugi; A jaw–dropping, wickedly amoral revenge thriller from the dir. of AUDITION, who blows the dust (and the roof) off gangster movie cliches and…
Dead or Alive 2 (Tobosha) (2000): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shinya Tsukamoto; Understated yet rewarding sequel to the mind–blowing gangster actioner follows on from the 'end of the world' with an unrelated story, with…
City of Lost Souls (2000): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Teah , Michelle Reis, Ren Osugi; Another turbo–charged piece of blood–drenched lunacy from prolific genre stylist Takashi Miike, marked out by its Brazilian protagonist…
MPD - Psycho (TV Series) (2000): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoki Hosaka; Takashi Miike's TV series is an appropriately psychotic riff on a policier, featuring a detective with 32 personalities chasing a serial killer who…
Happiness of the Katakuris (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kiyoshiro Imawano…; A delirious confection from Japanese bad boy dir., Takashi Miike, this “zombie musical” is his most benevolent yet purely entertaining…
Ichi the Killer (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto; Dir. Takashi Miike earned his notoriety with this wincingly violent revenge thriller in which a bent ex–cop (played by "Tetsuo" director,…
Visitor Q (Bizita Q) (2001): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe…; Miike Takashi's most controversial film – which in this case is really saying something – finally coming to video (?). A legendarily…
Dead or Alive 3 (Final) (2002): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi; Imaginative, futuristic final entry in a remarkable action trilogy that this time presents its anti–heroic pair toughing it out in a dystopian…
One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…; Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
Gozu (2003): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Hideki Sone, Kimika Yoshino; Rebel iconoclast of Japanese cinema, Takashi Miike, unveils his creepiest film since AUDITION: a hellishly disorientating – yet markedly restrained…
Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004): Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai); Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works. 'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
Great Yokai War, The (Yôkai daisensô) (2005): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Chiaki Kuriyama; The latest cinematic mash–up from dir. Miike (AUDITION) is a family–orientated adventure in which a shy young boy from a broken family…
Masters of Horror: Imprint (2006): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Youki Kudoh, Michie Itô, Billy Drago; The ugly duckling of the MASTERS OF HORROR series, Takashi Miike directs this typically surreal and gruesome fable of a prostitute’s horrific…
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ando Masanobu, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi…; Mashing spaghetti western and samurai farce, Takashi Miike spins an east–meets–west tale of two rival clans attempting to bolster their…
Crows O (Kurôzu zero) (2007): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shun Oguri, Kishitani Goro, Yamada Takayuki…; Irresistibly entertaining manga adaptation from the genius director of ICHI THE KILLER, presenting the first in a series of Japanese action films…
Yatterman (2009): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shô Sakurai, Saki Fukuda, Kyoko Fukada; Fantastical live–action anime serves kids and kidults alike with its tale of mild–mannered shop keepers who don jaunty costumes to fight…
13 Assassins (2010): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Yamada Takayuki, Yusuke Iseya…; Takashi Miike turns in perhaps his most entertaining and accomplished film yet with this rollicking SEVEN SAMURAI–inspired adventure, centred…
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka; The ever–versatile Takashi Miike changes tack from his rollicking samurai adventure, 13 ASSASSINS, to deliver a restrained and resonant tale of…
Ace Attorney (2012): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Hiroki Narimiya, Takumi Saito; Takashi Miike churns out this preposterous video game adaptation, about a cocksure lawyer who agrees to defend his courtroom rival in a murder trial,…
Lesson of Evil (Lesson of the Evil) (2012): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Yamada Takayuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hideaki Ito; Another manga adaption from director cult Takashi Miike based on the seinen manga on the same name. A successful English teacher who is secretly a…
Shield of Straw (2013): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Takao Ohsawa, Nanako Matsushima, Kishitani Goro…; The prolific Takashi Miike returns with a tale of a team of cops who must protect an accused killer with a billion–yen bounty on his head.
Over Your Dead Body (Kuime) (2014): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Ebizo Ichikawa, Miho Nakanishi…; Takashi Miike takes his cues from the art of Kabuki in this chilly tale of how fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors as they rehearse a…
Terraformars: The Movie (2016): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Kane Kosugi…; A team of human exterminators are on a mission to wipe out a ridiculous cockroach infestation that plagues the red planet, after a terraforming…
Blade of the Immortal (2017): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Takuya Kimura, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Sota…; Japanese uber–director Miike Takashi’s 100th feature, based on a popular manga series about a vengeful swordsman with an uncanny ability to…
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (2017): Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ryunosuke Kamiki, Kento Yamazaki; Frenetic and boundlessly wacky live–action adaptation of the manga, with a head spinning plot involving psychic avatars who plot to bring down…

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