Takashi Miike Crime, Drama, Thriller, Katayama (Aikawa Sho) is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he stumbles on a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. | A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own. Asian Cinema 16.2 (2005): 85-109. Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. So entertainment for everyone doesn't exist. | Action, Western. A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path. | Stars: Midoriko Kimura, 122 min | Action, Horror, Director: The Neighbor No. Despite his notorious reputation, Miike has directed film in a range of genres. Kai Atô, For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. | An executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance. Takashi Miike Stars: [12] In Hong Kong, 16 minutes and 59 seconds of footage were cut. His international breakthrough came with Audition (1999) (Audition), and since then he has an ever expanding cult following in the west. 105 min Masaki Okada, 24 min I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Yao, Japan. Takashi Miike | When his beloved boss is killed, a dangerous young gangster cuts a path of vengeance through the Japanese mafia. Action, Drama, Fantasy. His father worked as a welder and his mother as seamstress. The movie was outright rejected by many ratings boards, and once again, was widely derided at film festivals for its extreme content. Short, Documentary. V-Cinema were known for allowing filmmakers more freedom, which let Miike let his hair down and hone his controversial skill and talent for off-color and risky content such as "A Human Murder Weapon" (1992) and "Bodyguard Kiba" (1993). Hitomi Katayama, 130 min He continued to work in the V-Cinema space over the next few years, as he finished off his Black Triad trilogy with "Rainy Dog" (1997) and "Ley Lines" (1999). Naoto Takenaka, [3][4] However, it was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) that was the first of his theatrical releases to gain public attention. Rila Fukushima, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Shirô Sano, Stars: Along with a glorification of friendship and traditional family units, both normal -. Kento Yamazaki, He is known for his dark sense of humor and for pushing the boundaries of censorship as far as they will go. Stars: "The Homelessness of Style and the Problems of Studying Miike Takashi." Kazue Fukiishi, 60 min Director: | Satomi Ishihara, Takashi Miike Stars: Rinko Kikuchi, Stars: | | Stars: “Tennen Shojo Man” was a strangely successful TV product of 1999 that served as the inspiration for a TV movie follow-up “Tennen shojo Man next: Yokohama hyaku-ya hen“, released in the same year. | Kôichi Satô, [18], In 2005 Takashi Miike directed a Kabuki-style play titled Demon Pond. Katsunori Takahashi, [1] Although he claimed to have attended classes only rarely, he graduated from Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film (Yokohama Hōsō Eiga Senmon Gakkō) under the guidance of renowned filmmaker Shohei Imamura, the founder and Dean of that institution.[2]. Yu Tokui, “Tennen Shojo Man” was a strangely successful TV product of 1999 that served as the inspiration for a TV movie follow-up “Tennen shojo Man next: Yokohama hyaku-ya hen“, released in the same year. Takashi Miike The Japanese filmmaker made a living depicting unsettling images of ultra violence on film, whether through theatrical movies or direct-to-video V-Cinema productions. Kazuki Kitamura, 96 min |  His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. | Mayu Tsuruta, Star: Stars: AsianMoviePulse | The series, featuring episodes by a range of established horror directors such as John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and Dario Argento, was supposed to provide directors with relative creative freedom and relaxed restrictions on violent and sexual content (some sexual content was edited from the Argento-directed episode "Jenifer"). Action, Drama. | He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due... See full summary », Director: Yûsuke Iseya, At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director, Series Review: Tennen Shojo Man (1999) by Takashi Miike, Film Review: 13 Assassins (2010) by Takashi Miike, Book Review: Iron Man. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly. Takashi Miike After about a dozen direct-to-video productions over a span of four years, Miike made his theatrical debut with "Shinjuku Triad Society" (1995), which helped Miike put his stamp on the world of film, as his debut featured extreme violence and just an overall level of weirdness that no one else was really doing at the time. The story of Dr. Koichiro, who moves from Japan to Kenya to volunteer as a doctor for child soldiers. Producer. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, primarily because there were no entrance exams. | | Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Nana Komatsu, Masaki Okada Votes: 1,228 Sci-Fi. He regularly dove into other genres, such as the light-hearted drama "Salaryman Kintaro" (1999) or the kids movies "Zebraman" (2004) and "The Great Yokai War" (2005). Action, Crime, Director: Kazuya Nakayama, - IMDb Mini Biography By: Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. Asian Movies | [5] His 2013 film Straw Shield was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[6]. | Gross: His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. Takashi Miike Director: If Takashi Miike had his way, his biography would be rife with violence that would make the reader squeamish and depictions of the world that would raise questions about the potential goodness of man. Quentin Tarantino, To try to think of what makes for entertainment is a very Japanese thing. He gained international fame in 2000 when his romantic horror film Audition (1999), his violent yakuza epic Dead or Alive (1999), and his controversial adaptation of the manga Ichi the Killer played at international film festivals. Director: Hua Rong Weng, R Naoto Takenaka, 109 min There he meets another man and the two become friends. Ryôsuke Miki, Ayana Sakai, During World War II, his grandfather was stationed in China and Korea, and his father was born in Seoul in today's South Korea. 90%, The Neighbor No. Shô Sakurai, Takeshi Caesar, Show Aikawa, Crime, After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video and television productions since his debut in 1991. Copyright © Fandango. Ren Osugi, Yoshiki Arizono, [10], Several of Miike's films have been subject to scrutiny due to heavy violence. Crime, Drama, In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Ayumi Asakura, Action, Crime, When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto (2005) by Tom Mes, Directors/cinematographers etc. It took him quite a while, as he continued to rebel and skip classes far too often, but after his tenure at Yokohama, he moved onto creating direct-to-video films in the 1990s that were a part of the V-Cinema craze. His 2001 horror film Ichi the Killer, adapted from a manga of the same name and starring Tadanobu Asano as a sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer, was highly controversial; during its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001, the audience received "barf bags" emblazoned with the film's logo as a promotional gimmick.