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Audition

Audition (1999) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Miyuki Matsuda, Renji Ishibashi

Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike creates this unnerving horror film about a widowed TV producer auditioning prospective wives. In his search, one candidate particularly stands out, a lovely ex-ballerina dressed in white. The widower cannot believe his good fortune, until he starts looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her ...

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Ichi the Killer

Ichi the Killer (2003) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Alien Sun, Sabu

Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga Koroshiya 1. When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find the people responsible. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, pierced slash for a mouth, Kakihara is no ordinary ...

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Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive (2000) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa, Renji Ishibashi

Takashi Miike takes a dime-a-dozen yakuza script and turns it inside out in this high-octane surrealist crime action thriller. The film's first ten minutes is a breathless montage depicting a naked woman clutching a bag of cocaine being thrown off a high-rise, a porcine Chinese gangster devouring bowl after bowl of noodles before getting whacked, ...

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Fudoh: The New Generation

Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Seijun Suzuki meets the Grand Guignol in this wild hallucinatory yakuza drama, directed by Japan's gonzo cinema auteur Takashi Miike, about one of the ugliest family squabbles this side of Oedipus. The film opens with lifelong gangster Iwao Fudoh (Toru Minegishi) killing his grown son after an important mob deal goes south, as his younger son, ...

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The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls (2000) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Teah, Michelle Reis, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Koji Kikkawa

The fantastically prolific Takashi Miike directs this dizzyingly stylish thriller -- one of four in the year 2000 alone -- about love, cocaine, and exile. In the film's near-wordless opening, half-Japanese Brazil Mario (Teah) wipes out a room full of his fellow criminals in a bar in Sao Paolo and then strips naked in the dust storm outside. Mario ...

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Yakuza Demon

Yakuza Demon (2003) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike directed this characteristically offbeat and hard-hitting crime drama. Seiji and Yoshifumi are a pair of yakuza (Japanese gangsters) who have sworn their loyalty to mob boss Muto. When Muto fails to pay his proscribed share of the fund for an upcoming gang battle, Muto tells the other leaders of the Date family ...

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Three... Extremes

Three... Extremes (2005) more movies like this

directed by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike
featuring Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Pauline Lau, Zabit Memedov

Three Asian directors, from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, join forces to create an omnibus horror film, Three...Extremes. In Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," shot by Christopher Doyle, Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeung), a thirtysomething former actress with a philandering husband (Tony Leung) goes to visit Aunt Mei (Bai Ling), who sells the most expensive dumplings ...

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The Great Yokai War

The Great Yokai War (2006) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

A group of grotesque supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore enlist the aid of a young boy recently bestowed with the title of Kirin Rider in defeating a powerful dark overlord who preys on humans and monsters alike in this kid-friendly fantasy from Takashi Miike. As a series of bizarre supernatural incidents plague the Japanese countryside ...

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Andromedia

Andromedia (2004) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Japan's renegade horror filmmaker Takashi Miike reveals a more subtle (but no less adventurous) side to his cinematic personality in this offbeat example of thinking person's science fiction. Mai (Hiroko Shimabukuro) is a youngster whose father (Tsunehiko Watase) is a scientist who is working on a system to record a person's memory and personality ...

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Sabu

Sabu (2002) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Satoshi Tsumabuki

Take a trip back to the Tokugawa era for this tale of friendship and loyalty from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike. When Eiji is wrongly imprisoned for a crime that he did not commit, his bad luck takes a turn for the worse when he is sent to an Ishikawa workhouse to perform hard labor. As Eiji attempts to survive the physical and mental ...

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Visitor Q (2001) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike spins this black comedy about the most dysfunctional family on the planet. The film opens with a father (Kenichi Endo) -- a gung-ho TV reporter -- not only paying to have sex with his estranged prostitute daughter in an anonymous hotel room but also videotaping the act as part of a documentary about "young people today." His son, who ...

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Ley Lines (1999) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Three men hoping to find a better life in Tokyo find their dreams of happiness turning into a waking nightmare in the final installment of maverick Japanese Director Takashi Miike's Black Society trilogy. When a scheming Chinese prostitute takes the men for all they're worth and the harsh realities of racism and poverty render them unemployable, ...

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Izo (2004) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

The insanely prolific Takashi Miike teams again with screenwriter Shigenori Takechi (Graveyard of Honor) for his first samurai film, Izo. The film begins where Hideo Gosha's 1969 Hitokiri (the last film author Yukio Mishima starred in before his suicide) left off, with the crucifixion and bloody execution of a low-level samurai, Izo (Kazuya ...

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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

For his fifth or so release of 2002, phenomenally prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike directs this gangster epic. The film opens with the godfather (Yuya Uchida) of the Sanada-gumi being targeted for a hit. The hired gun, however, finds the old goat less than willing to die. Of course, the murder infuriates the clan’s second-in-command Kunisada ...

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Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Naoto Takenaka

Nostalgia deals with the home and school life of a young boy whose world is a mesh of the lovably comic and the brutally violent. Focusing on the emergence of an adult perception in a boy who until now has lived largely in fantasy, the film is a coming-of-age tale that director Takashi Miike professes to be his favorite among his works. Cammila ...

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Silver (1999)

directed by Takashi Miike

A shattered woman once orphaned at the hands of a vicious band of killers seeks to destroy the lives of those who took her family from her in this bloody tale of death and revenge. Her life forever changed by the ruthless criminal collaborative known as "Paradise" Jun Shirogane's rage eventually became too powerful to control. Now determined to ...

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Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Koji Chihara

This violent comedy is a cinematic bloodbath from cult filmmaker Takashi Miike. The story centers on a trio of chums trying to make their ways in the world after graduating school. Two of the fellows fall into the gritty world of organized crime. Meanwhile, the third of the group tries to walk the straight and narrow, working in a hair salon. ...

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Full Metal Yakuza (1997) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Takeshi Caesar, Yasushi Kitamura

Japanese horror auteur Takashi Miike directed this bizarre, ultra-violent variation on Robocop. Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) works as a janitor for Tousa, the head of a powerful Yakuza family; Kensuke looks up to Tousa, and wants to join the organization some day. While Tousa is serving seven years in prison, Kensuke is given his chance, but he ...

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Shin Jingi no Hakaba (2002) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Goro Kishitani, Narimi Arimori, Shingo Yamashiro, Ryosuke Miki

For his fifth or sixth film of 2002 -- one easily loses count -- Takashi Miike adapts Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 gangster classic Jingi no Hakaba about a doomed love affair between a renegade yakuza and his long-suffering girlfriend. Whereas the original film was set in the poverty of Japan's immediate postwar era, this work is set during Japan's yen ...

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Imprint (2006) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Billy Drago, Youki Kudoh, Toshie Negishi, Michie

An American journalist in search of the love he once left behind travels to a mysterious Japanese island where the past is best left forgotten in the one installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series that was too controversial for American television. It was long ago that Christopher (Billy Drago) met the mysterious prostitute who captured ...

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Kintaro - The White Collar Worker (2000) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Katsunori Takahashi

A former mob boss' past returns to haunt him as he tries to walk the straight and narrow in director Takashi Miike's adaptation of Hiroshi Motomiya's popular manga. He may have been a wild man in his past, but these days former biker Kintaro (Katsunori Takahashi) opts to spend his days working a white-collar job for a respected construction ...

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Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike's Shinjuku Triad Society is the first of a three-film series known as the Black Society Trilogy. Corrupt cop Tatsuhito disregards any and all regulations in his attempt to bring down Wang, an inhumanely cruel criminal who lords over an empire that makes its fortune from the debasing of human beings. The cast includes Kippei Shiina, ...

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Dead or Alive 2: The Birds (2000) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi

In spite of its title, this film bares no direct relation to Takashi Miike's rip-roarin' Dead or Alive, which is not surprising since ended with world going up in flames in the last installment. This film opens with Mizuki (Sho Aikawa), who is hired by an eccentric magic enthusiast (Tsukamoto Shinya) to off a yakuza crime lord, only to have his ...

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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2005) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Ryuhei Matsuda, Masanobu Ando

Two men imprisoned for seperate murders find their fates mortally intertwined in cult director Takashi Miike's homoerotic meditation on the societal flaws of modern-day Japan. Jun (Ryuhei Matsuda) is an effiminate gay bar employee who, after being sexually assaulted by a customer, brutally murdered his attacker in a fit of rage. Shiro (Masanobu ...

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Zebraman (2007) more movies like this

directed by Takashi Miike
featuring Sho Aikawa, Kyoka Suzuki, Teruyoshi Uchimura, Yui Ichikawa

A nebbish father and schoolteacher finds the courage to face both his personal issues and a horde of invading aliens after assuming the guise of an unpopular television superhero in maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike's warmhearted comedy. Nice guy Shinichi (Sho Aikawa) just can't seem to find the respect he so readily deserves: he's cuckold ...

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