Movies
The prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike embraces gangster-movie clichés with heart and verve.
Sept. 26, 2019
Takashi Miike has a recurring dream. In it he’s flying low to the ground, at a slow speed.
Nov. 7, 2017
Japanese cult filmmaker Takashi Miike ended one gangster picture with the annihilation of planet Earth, so that means that his new crime-horror-science-fiction hybrid “Yakuza Apocalypse” is, by rough estimate, only the sixth- or seventh-craziest movie he’s made.
Oct. 8, 2015
Director Takashi Miike’s bizarre yakuza film is a comical adventure as surreal as a Dali painting.
Aug. 13, 2004
“Blade of the Immortal” is the 100th film by Takashi Miike, a Japanese director who for 25 years has tried his hand at gangster pictures, westerns, horror, comedy, superhero sagas, animation and just about any other genre imaginable … in modes that range from grubby low-budget sleaze to rousing crowd-pleasers to abstract art.
Nov. 3, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Indie Focus: Takashi Miike picks up a genre’s sword for ’13 Assassins’
April 24, 2011
Review: Restrained ‘Hara-Kiri’ opts for character over craziness
July 19, 2012
Movie review: ’13 Assassins’
April 28, 2011
Takashi Miike’s “Audition” begins like a classic, gentle Yasujiro Ozu parent-and-child drama, but 45 minutes in we get hints that we’re in for something rather different.
Nov. 16, 2001
French director Eric Valette liked Japan’s ‘One Last Call’ so much he made one himself.
Jan. 4, 2008