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Takashi Miike
Miike makes films that others wouldn't dare to make. He came to film making the old fashioned way, working his way up from production hand until eventually, during Japan's straight to video boom era, he got his chance to direct.
His first cinematic release was Shinjuku Triad Society, a fairly standard triad film in 95, since then he has directed over 60 films. He first hit Western audiences with Audition, a cold chilling torture film that led the way for films like Hard Candy and Hostel. That was a golden period for Miike, he followed Audition with the Dead Or Alive trilogy, and then his masterpiece Ichi The Killer.
His films show graphic violence and sex, and often start of as standard genre films, and end in a weird surrealist twist. Some times he starts a film one way and ends another, like Gozu, its a standard gangster film for about 35 minutes, the last half is a surreal mind twist with mother issues. And in other times like in One Missed Call, he starts and ends with a weird horror film.
Western film directors and audiences are big fans of Miike's, with Tarantino starring in his film Sukiyaki Western Django, his horror film One Missed Call has just been remade for western audiences, he was one of the directors chosen for the masters of horror series and he was asked to do a special cameo in Hostel. There is no doubt that Miike could never have made a career in Hollywood, his films are way to disturbing for mainstream audiences.
The test for most people is the opening scene in Ichi The Killer, if you can sit through that scene, then Miike may be the director for you, if not, his extreme violence and sexual challenging nature will be way to much for you.
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Takashi Miike - what members say
review by daemonicus1980 from London, UK
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN! 13 April 2004
review by from Edinburgh, Scotland
Not Miike's usual style but a good film all the same 14 April 2005
review by Benjani from Cornwall, England
Please Read Carefully... 11 December 2004
Takashi Miike - filmography
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Yatterman
(2009)
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Sadao Abe, Kyoko Fukada
Director: Takashi Miike
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Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a ..read more »
 
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Due for release on 23rd April 2012
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Yatterman - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Shô Sakurai, Sadao Abe, Kyoko Fukada
Director: Takashi Miike
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Classic seventies anime series Yatterman flies to the silver screen in a brilliant crime-fighting explosion of candy-coloured camp, over-the-top adventure, and pure popcorn entertainment. Directed by legendary cult director Takashi Miike (13 Assassins, Ichi The Killer, Audition) and featuring a ..read more »
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Three Extremes
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Mai Suzuki, Pauline Lau, Tony Leung Ka Fai
Director: Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
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THREE...EXTREMES brings together a team of highly-regarded Asian filmmakers, featuring a trio of short works by Hong Kong's Fruit Chan (DURIAN DURIAN), Korea's Chan-wook Park (OLDBOY), and Japan's Takashi Miike (AUDITION). The trilogy opens with Chan's disgustingly entertaining DUMPLINGS, which he ..read more »
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One Missed Call
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kou Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi
Director: Takashi Miike
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Kou Shibasaki stars as Yumi Nakamura, a teenager who gets freaked out when her best friend, Yoko (Anna Nagata), gets a call on her cell phone--from herself, screaming, dated three days in the future. Three days later, at the exact time of the call--which had an ominous, strange ring tone--it all ..read more »
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Gozu
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hideki Sone, Sho Aikawa, Kimika Yoshino
Director: Takashi Miike
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This wildly bizarre Japanese horror movie from master Takeski Miike (AUDITION) follows the mysterious disappearance of Brother, a gangster who was accidentally killed by one of his Mafia cohorts, Minami. Searching for Brother's body--which vanished minutes after he was shot--Minami stumbles into a ..read more »
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Deadly Outlaw - Rekka
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Riki Takeuchi, Ryosuke Miki, Sonny Chiba
Director: Takashi Miike
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Following the death of his boss, Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi Dead or Alive, Battle Royale 2) embarks upon a journey of revenge against the rival gang who ordered the hit. However, all is not how it seems as Kunisada uncovers the truth behind the shady deals that exist within his own clan. Pursued by ..read more »
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Dead Or Alive: Final
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Maria Chen
Director: Takashi Miike
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The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.
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Happiness Of The Katakuris
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka
Director: Takashi Miike
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One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. Unfortunately, through no fault of their own, none of their guests leave ..read more »
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Ichi The Killer
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Takashi Miike
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
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Visitor Q
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe
Director: Takashi Miike
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In Miike Takashi's outrageous, taboo-busting satire Vistor Q, shamed reporter Kiyoshi Yamazaki visits one of Japan's many comfort houses to make a documentary about sex and violence amongst the nation's youth and is surprised to encounter his nubile daughter there. Soon after he meets "Q", an ..read more »
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Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Takashi Miike
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
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Agitator
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mickey Curtis, Yoshiyuki Daichi
Director: Takashi Miike
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Violence between two families of Yakuza begin when a young Yakuza harasses the customers at a rival's nightclub. When the feud results in the death of a prominent crime boss, Kenzaki vows vengeance for the death.
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Dead Or Alive 2
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Noriko Aota, Edison Chen
Director: Takashi Miike
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When the assassin Otamoko is hired to make a hit, he is shocked when a rival hitman gets there before him but chooses to take the money anyway and flee from the gangsters who control his life. Returning to the island of his childhood he discovers that the rival hitman was his friend Sawada and the ..read more »
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City Of Lost Souls
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Michele Reis, Ren Osugi, Akaji Maro
Director: Takashi Miike
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THE CITY OF LOST SOULS is the fruit of Japanese auteur Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) collaboration with the Hong Kong film industry, a dazzling gangster picture that mixes the absurd, brutal violence, and the surreal freely. The film stars Michelle Reis as Kei, a young Chinese woman who is in love ..read more »
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Family 1 / Family 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Koichi Iwaki, Kazuya Kimura, Taishu Kase
Director: Takashi Miike
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Shudder at the Yakuza Mafia's takeover of Japan's dark side. There is no bond like the Family bond of the Yakuza. The story of Japan's Yakuza Families and the ultimate test of loyalty. Kidnapping, murder, boat chases, big exploisons, sexual exchanges, beautiful women and drugs abound in this film. ..read more »
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Audition
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki
Director: Takashi Miike
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AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into Aoyama's charmless life, his best friend, television ..read more »
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Ley Lines
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Samuel Pop Aning, Yukie Itou
Director: Takashi Miike
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LEY LINES is the concluding part of Miike Takashi's thematically linked Triad Society trilogy. It follows the story of three young boys from rural Japan who move to Tokyo in search of excitement and find thrills of a sort when in the notoriously sleazy Shinjuku district. After sliding into a life ..read more »
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The Bird People in China
(1998)
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako
Director: Takashi Miike
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One of Japan's hottest young directors, Takashi Miike directs this curious adventure story set in China's picturesque Yunnan province.
Workaholic Tokyo salaryman Wada (Masashiro Motoki) ventures into deepest, darkest China to investigate a massive deposit of high-quality jade. Tailing him is Ujiie ..read more »
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Rainy Dog
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Sho Aikawa, Lianmei Chen, Ming-Jun Gao
Director: Takashi Miike
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RAINY DOG is the second in Miike Takashi's Triad Society trilogy which is linked by theme rather than character. This installment focuses on Yuuji, a loner who works as a triad hitman. His world is turned upside down when his ex-wife dumps a small boy, who may or may not be his son, on his doorstep.
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Fudoh - The New Generation
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Toru Minegishi, Riki Takeuchi, Shosuke Tanihara
Director: Takashi Miike
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Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a business agreement. Riki witnessed the killing and vowed revenge on his father and ..read more »
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Shinjuku Triad Society
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Takeshi Caesar, Kyosuke Izutsu, Ren Osugi
Director: Takashi Miike
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SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY is the first in a trilogy of films by Miike Takashi that are linked by the triad theme. A cop attempts to limit the effects of an attempted takeover of drug and prostitution rackets by a Taiwanese mob. However, any attempts to exercise retraint prove futile when he discovers ..read more »
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Sabu
Starring: Fujiwara Tatsuya, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Director: Takashi Miike
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ramed for a crime he did not commit, Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island workhouse. Sabu, Eiji's longtime friend, must discover who is responsible for Eiji's incarceration, before the prison life consumes him completely.
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Osaka Tough Guys
Starring: Sei Hiraizumi, Kentaro Nakakura, Hachiro Oka
Director: Takashi Miike
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Makoto and Eiji are two friends that have been ejected from the school. In order to get money, they answer and advertisement on a magazine that supposedly offers a good job, but in reality this is just a swindle made by the Kinsu family to get new members for the group. Once they are members of the ..read more »
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Takashi Miike facts
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...nothing you've seen before, I promise! all I can say is I'm in complete awe of Takashi Miike to have the imagination to create this movie and then to have sold the idea to ...
