The Exorcism

A troubled actor begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror

"...setup for The Exorcism feels similar to that of Takashi Miike’s theatrical chiller Over Your Dead Body, both films..."

June 21, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Review: Crazy Samurai Musashi

Hour of swordplay sound fun? Have we got the bloodbath for you!

"...decade ago. For this, much as his arguable forebear Takashi Miike did with 13 Assassins, he reaches into the..."

Aug. 25, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

We Are Little Zombies

Wildly inventive Japanese musical comedy-drama finds the joy in nihilism

"...If there are signposts, it's the controlled chaos of Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris, or Jang Joon-hwan's..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The J-Pop Story Behind Takashi Miike's First Love

How the Japanese director never meant to become a genre master

"...genre films.” That may sound strange for Japanese director Takashi Miike, whose career has spanned about every genre definable..."

Feb. 14, 2020 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

First Love

Japanese master Takashi Miike at his quirkiest and most romantic

"...Directed by: Takashi Miike. Starring: Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Shōta Sometani and..."

Oct. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest Review: First Love

Takashi Miike's bloody romance is all beating heart

"...First Love, the blood splattered latest from prolific auteur Takashi Miike, opens hard with Leo (Masataka Kubota), a boxer..."

Sept. 21, 2019 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Fantastic Fest: A Double Barrel Blast of Begos

Director brings Bliss and VFW to fest

"...showing two films this year: Japanese trailblazer and legend Takashi Miike, and American psychotronic revivalist Joe Begos. "It's pretty..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How Fantastic Fest Is Shaping the Genre Film Scene

Fifteen years in and still fantastic

"...Knives Out, and the latest from Japanese cinematic icon Takashi Miike, boxing crime drama First Love. They may seem..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Honors Japanese Film Master Takashi Miike

Third wave includes special tribute to the J-horror innovator

"...aren't many true giants of cinema, but Japanese director Takashi Miike fits that description. That's why, as part of..."

Sept. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...be the only filmmaker in attendance. Japanese movie icon Takashi Miike brings his latest, boxing drama First Love, for..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Interview: A Piercing Conversation With Nicolas Pesce

Why are we all so attracted to serial killers?

"...by Ryu Murakami, most famous to cinema audiences for Takashi Miike's 1999 adaptation of his novel Audition. "That's one..."

Sept. 20, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blade of the Immortal

More blood-splattered samurai action from the Japanese master

"...Directed by: Takashi Miike. Starring: Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki and Sôta Fukushi...."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Your Weekend in Film

These people go forth by going for broke

"...Blade of the Immortal. Takashi Miike’s 100th film follows an unkillable samurai helping a..."

Nov. 30, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

The Trauma of Thanksgiving Films

Or, how to alienate your family this holiday season

"...half of my audience in less than an hour), Takashi Miike's Audition (admittedly a poor choice, but it definitely..."

Nov. 24, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Fantastic Fest Review: Blade of the Immortal

Director Takashi Miike slices and dices a manga favorite

"...Why would legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike want to adapt the big-screen version of Hiroaki..."

Sept. 30, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest 2017 Preview

The show must go on

"...Blade of the ImmortalHappy 100th film, legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike!Sun., Sept. 24, 10:45amThu., Sept. 28, 7pm..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

What’cha Watchin’?

Staff writer Richard Whittaker revisits favorite Fantastic Fest films now streaming

"...13 Assassins (Hulu) Japanese rebel-turned-institution Takashi Miike punches twice with his new adaptation of seminal..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Screens Column

Fantastic Fest Fills the Card

Massive list includes closing night film

"...with some unmissable retrospective screenings. Since iconic Japanese director Takashi Miike will already be bringing his long-awaited 100th film,..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Hits Hard

Stephen King adaptations, Arabic cinema, and Three Billboards

"...quartet of new films from major and lauded directors. Takashi Miike's hotly-anticipated adaptation of megaselling manga Blade of the..."

Aug. 8, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Officer Downe

Slipknot's Clown turns director, plus more home releases

"...Geisha, The Machine Girl), than the textured malice of Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer) or Sion Sono (Tokyo Tribe)...."

April 9, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Evidence for the Prosecution of Rock

Austin’s Graffiti Trials releases a garage-flavored chunk of awesome

"...bastard child of David Lynch and Jane Campion after Takashi Miike got the scenic designer high on Bolivian tarantula..."

Oct. 12, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVDanger: The Midnight After

Pure, raw WTF from Hong Kong, plus Rabid Dogs

"...marker here may well be Sion Sono, or maybe Takashi Miike in full-on The Happiness of the Katakuris mode...."

June 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Over Your Dead Body

Takashi Miike resurrects an old Japanese ghost

"...There are few directors as prodigious and versatile as Takashi Miike. In a 25-year career of taboo-busting cinema, with..."

Jan. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Yakuza Apocalypse

Japan’s nuttiest filmmaker Takashi Miike strikes again

"...Directed by: Takashi Miike. Starring: Hayao Ichihara, Lily Franky, Yayan Ruhian, Riko..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest 2015: Yakuza Apocalypse

Miike’s vampiric gangster film features gore and Keroppi

"...comes to weird-ass, batshit-crazy showstoppers, there’s prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike and very few others...."

Sept. 25, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Wave 2: The Martian, The Witch, and More

New Ridley Scott flick, plus dozens more added to fest

"...shares its borders with inescapable evil. Yakuza Apocalypse D: Takashi Miike Japan, 2015, 115 min Texas Premiere After a..."

Aug. 26, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Uzumasa Limelight

The hero of this beguiling Japanese film is a kirare-yaku or “sliced actor” – a certain kind of Japanese actor/stuntman who always dies by sword in the shadows.

"...a spate of chanbara films, not least among them Takashi Miike’s own riff on Zatoichi as well his bloody..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Why Don't You Play in Hell?

This Japanese mind-twister from Shion Sono screams with madness and mayhem.

"...Bruce Lee’s Game of Death, the yakuza films of Takashi Miike, and Hammer & Tongs’ Son of Rambow, and..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Japanese Madness Overtakes Fantastic Fest

Miike, Sono, and Studio Ghibli all added to lineup

"...The latest from Studio Ghibli, insanity from cult directors Takashi Miike and Sion Sono, star power from Keanu Reeves..."

Aug. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Cannes Reveals Full 2013 Lineup

Coen Brothers, Soderbergh, Luhrmann, and more

"...(Nicolas Winding Refn) The Past (Asghar Farhadi) Straw Shield (Takashi Miike) A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) Un chateau..."

April 18, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

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