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Takashi Miike

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Takashi Miike in 13 Assassins (2010)
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
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Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. 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. By his own account Miike was an undisciplined student and attended few classes, but when a local TV company came scouting for unpaid production assistants, the school nominated the one pupil who never showed up: Miike. He spent almost a decade working in television, in many different roles, before becoming an assistant director in film to, amongst others, his old mentor Imamura. The "V-Cinema" (Direct to Video) boom of the early 1990s was to be Miike's break into directing his own films, as newly formed companies hired eager young filmmakers willing to work cheap and crank out low-budget action movies. Miike's first theatrically distributed film was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) (Shinjuku Triad Society), and from then on he alternated V-Cinema films with higher-budgeted pictures. His international breakthrough came with Audition (1999) (Audition), and since then he has an ever expanding cult following in the west. A prolific director, Miike has directed (at the time of this writing) 60+ films in his 13 years as director, his films being known for their explicit and taboo representations of violence and sex, as seen in such works as Bijitâ Q (2001) (Visitor Q), Ichi the Killer (2001) (Ichi The Killer) and the Dead or Alive Trilogy: Dead or Alive (1999), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) and Dead or Alive: Final (2002).
BornAugust 24, 1960
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Tatsuya Fujiwara, Nanako Matsushima, and Takashi Miike in Shield of Straw (2013)
Takashi Miike in Ai to makoto (2012)
Takashi Miike in Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
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Takashi Miike and Hana Sugisaki
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Takashi Miike, Nao Ômori, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yuki Melendres, Yumika Tan, Lily Franky, Atsuko Maeda, Shôta Sometani, Sôta Fukushi, Ryôsuke Yamamoto, Hirona Yamazaki, Mio Yûki, Minori Hagiwara, Nana Komatsu, and Nijirô Murakami in As the Gods Will (2014)

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13 Assassins (2010)
13 Assassins
7.5
  • Director
  • 2010
Tadanobu Asano in Ichi the Killer (2001)
Ichi the Killer
7.0
  • Director
  • 2001
Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina in Audition (1999)
Audition
7.1
  • Director
  • 1999
Gozu (2003)
Gozu
6.9
  • Director
  • 2003

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Director

  • Go Kyung-Pyo, Jung Hae-in, and Kim Hye-jun in Connect (2022)
    Connect
  • Mole Song Final (2021)
    Mole Song Final
  • The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021)
    The Great Yokai War: Guardians
  • Miyu Watanabe, Rina Yamaguchi, Yui Yamashita, and Yura Sugiura in Police x Heroine Lovepatrina! ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~ (2021)
    Police x Heroine Lovepatrina! ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~
  • Police x Heroine Lovepatrina! (2020)
    Police x Heroine Lovepatrina!
  • Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ (2020)
    Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
  • That Moment, My Heart Cried (2019)
    That Moment, My Heart Cried
    • (segment Beautiful)
  • Sakurako Konishi and Masataka Kubota in First Love (2019)
    First Love
  • Toa Harada, Kira Yamaguchi, Minami Hishida, and Ran Ishii in Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! (2019)
    Secret × Heroine Phantomirage!
  • Laplace's Witch (2018)
    Laplace's Witch
  • Magical × Heroine Magimajo Pures! (2018)
    Magical × Heroine Magimajo Pures!
  • Yûsuke Iseya, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Takayuki Yamada, Masaki Okada, Kento Yamazaki, Mackenyu, and Nana Komatsu in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable - Chapter 1 (2017)
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable - Chapter 1
  • Takuya Kimura in Blade of the Immortal (2017)
    Blade of the Immortal
  • Idol × Warrior: Miracle Tunes! (2017)
    Idol × Warrior: Miracle Tunes!
  • The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016)
    The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio

Actor

  • AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000)
    AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
  • Heart of a Samurai (2009)
    Heart of a Samurai
  • Gekijô-ban Dôbutsu no Mori (2006)
    Gekijô-ban Dôbutsu no Mori
  • Hostel (2005)
    Hostel
  • The Neighbor No. Thirteen (2005)
    The Neighbor No. Thirteen
  • Koi no mon (2004)
    Koi no mon
  • Gokudô deka (2003)
    Gokudô deka
  • Last Life in the Universe (2003)
    Last Life in the Universe
  • Ichi the Killer: Episode 0 (2002)
    Ichi the Killer: Episode 0
    • (voice)
  • Graveyard of Honor (2002)
    Graveyard of Honor
  • Agitator (2001)
    Agitator
  • Nikutai keibiin - sakareta seifuku
  • Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (2000)
    Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
  • Yomigaeru kinrô 2 - fukkatsu-hen
  • Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997)
    Young Thugs: Innocent Blood

Producer

  • Higanjima (2013)
    Higanjima
  • Masataka Kubota in Cell Phone Investigator 7 (2008)
    Cell Phone Investigator 7
  • Ryû ga gotoku - jissha-ban (2005)
    Ryû ga gotoku - jissha-ban
  • Tsukamoto Shin'ya ga Ranpo suru (2000)
    Tsukamoto Shin'ya ga Ranpo suru
  • Nanba kin'yû-den, Minami no teiô: Supesharu gekijô-ban (1995)
    Nanba kin'yû-den, Minami no teiô: Supesharu gekijô-ban
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    • August 24, 1960
    • Yao, Japan
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    • 1 Biographical Movie
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Interview
    • 3 Articles

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    Speaks no English, but did his cameo in Hostel (2005) in English for Eli Roth, of whom he is a fan. His character in the end credits is listed as "Miike Takashi."
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    I just don't understand people who would walk out on a movie.
    • His films are often very provocative, based on extreme violence and sexual taboos.

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