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Whether you're Miike fan looking to see the auteur step outside of his comfort zone or a cinephile looking for a taut legal ...
Sham’ is Miike at his most commercial, a tense, mid-grade courtroom drama that unfolds in predictable yet interesting ways.
Takashi Miike makes a lot of movies. Now 57, the Japanese director has 100 features to his credit, but that could change between the time this review publishes. For some perspective, Steven ...
Takashi Miike didn’t realise he had made 100 films until he was halfway through his 102nd. The Japanese director was visiting a film festival when someone pointed out that with his famously ...
Takashi Miike’s movies care little about rules, boundaries and restraint. No matter their genre of choice (and he loves them all), they’re uninhibited orgies of cinematic pleasures, and that ...
Box Office: Takashi Miike’s “The Mole Song” No. 1 in Japan for Second Weekend in a Row "Kick-Ass 2" opens in fifth place while "Eternal Zero" is heading for $80 million after ten weeks near ...
Hara-kiri: The Death of a Samurai, Takashi Miike ’s remake of Masaki Kobayashi ’s 1962 Hara-kiri is expensively mounted with comfortably unobtrusive 3D effects, ceremoniously slow, and oh so ...
Takashi Miike is renowned as a prolific and controversial director of super-violent and even exploitative films, Audition and Ichi the Killer being his most famous stateside. But Miike's latest ...
But Miike has worked in an array of genres while overseeing some 100 movies and TV shows. His latest film, First Love, is a comedy-crime thriller — albeit an extreme one at times, judging by its ...