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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Miike Takashi

MIIKE Takashi (1960, Japan) spent almost a decade working in television before becoming an assistant director in film. During the first stage of his career, Miike mostly directed low-budget films for the Japanese direct-to-video market. His cinematic debut, Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) gained a nomination from the Director’s Guild of Japan, and its extremely violent depiction of underworld gang wars would become a recurring theme in his work. Miike is known for his huge productivity; he has made over 100 films. Audition, his international breakthrough, won the international film critics’ award at the Rotterdam film festival in 2000. Since then, IFFR has shown more than 20 of his films.

Filmography

(selection) Daisan no gokudo (1995), Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensō/Shinjuku Triad Society (1995), Gokudo sengokushi: Fudo/Fudoh: The New Generation (1996), Kishiwada shonen gurentai: Chikemuri junjo-hen/Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (1997), Gokudo kuroshakai/Rainy Dog (1997), Chugoku no chojin/The Bird People of China (1998), Andoromedeia/Andromedia (1998), Blues Harp (1998), Kishiwada shonen gurentai: Bokyo/Young Thugs: Nostalgia (1998), Nihon kuroshakai/Ley Lines (1999), Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha/Dead or Alive (1999), Sarariiman Kintaro/Salaryman Kintaro (1999), Odishon/Audition (1999-2000), Hyōryū-gai/The City of Lost Souls (2000), Dead or Alive 2: Tōbōsha/Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), Family (2001), Koroshiya Ichi/Ichi the Killer (2001), Araburu tamashii-tachi/Agitator (2001), Katakuri-ke no kofuku/The Happiness of the Kakaturis (2001), Zuiketsu genso – Tonkararin yume densetsu (2001), Dead or Alive: Final (2002), Tengoku Kara Kita Otoko-tachi/The Guys from Paradise (2001), Shin jingi no habaka/Graveyard of Honor (2002), Kin’yuu hametsu Nippon: Togenkyo no hito-bito/Shangri-La (2002), Jitsuroku Andō Noboru kyōdō-den: Rekka/Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002), Yurusarezaru mono/Man in White (2003), Gokudō kyōfu dai-gekijō: Gozu/Gozu (2003), Chakushin Ari/One Missed Call (2004), Zeburaman/Zebraman (2004), Izo (2004), Yokai daisenso/The Great Yokai War (2005), 46-okunen no koi/Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006), Taiyou no kizu/Sun Scarred (2006), Sukiyaki wesutān jango/Sukiyaki Western: Django (2007), Kurōzu Zero/Crows Zero (2007), Ryu ga Gotoku Gekijōban/Like a Dragon (2007), Kamisama no pazuru/God’s Puzzle (2007), Tantei monogatari/Detective Story (2007), Yattaaman/Yatterman (2009), Crows Zero 2 (2009), Jusan-nin no shikaku/13 Assassins (2010), Zebraman -Zebura Shiti no gyakushu/Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010), Nintama rantaro/Ninja Kids!!! (2011), Ichimei/Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Gyakuten saiban/Ace Attorney (2011), Ai to makoto/For Love’s Sake (2012), Aku no kyoten/Lesson of the Evil (2012), Wara no tate/Shield of Straw (2013), Mogura no uta; sennyû sôsakan: Reiji/The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013), Kamisama no iu tôri/As the Gods Will (2014), Kuime/Over Your Dead Body (2014), Kamisama no iu tori/As the Gods Will (2014), Kaze ni tatsu Lion/The Lion Standing in the Wind (2014), Gokudô Daisensô/Yakuza Apocalypse (2015),Terra Formars/Tera Fōmāzu (2016), Mogura no uta: Hong Kong kyōsō-kyoku/The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016), Mugen no Jūnin/Blade of the Immortal (2017), JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken: Daiyamondo wa Kudakenai: Daiisshō/JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Rapurasu no Majo/Laplace’s Witch (2018), Hatsukoi/First Love (2019), Yōkai Daisensō Gādianzu/The Great Yokai War: Guardians (2021), Mogura no Uta Fainaru/The Mole Song: Final (2021),

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Miike Takashi at IFFR

  • The Mole Song: Final

    Miike Takashi goes top speed again in this final part of his series of manga adaptations, which is jam-packed with insane excesses.

    • Harbour

  • The Mole Song: Final

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 6 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET

    • Harbour

  • Ley Lines

    The last part of Miike’s ‘Triad Society’ trilogy about the interaction between Chinese and Japanese gangsters. Against the background of pornography,

    • no cherry blossoms

  • Audition

    Hair-raising psychological thriller filled with scared thighs, addresses of houses that have been boarded up for years, impure whisky, acupuncture nee

    • no cherry blossoms

  • Dead or Alive

    Entertaining action film filled with love and violence by the former avantgarde director Miike. The backdrop for a disastrous clash between a cop and

    • no cherry blossoms

  • The Great Yokai War

    Virtuoso and fantastic children’s film by the most adult filmmaker in Japan. The master of hard cult film restrains himself, apart from on the level o

    • Kings & Aces

  • The City of Lost Souls

    Criminal turns up in Tokyo with her boyfriend, a bizarre melting pot of cultures and illegal trading. A cynical genre parody by the maker of Audition,

    • main programme features

  • Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

    Yakuza-versus-Yakuza crime spectacle by the ever productive Miike. Wild montage, freely scattered minor perversities and apocalyptic action.

    • main programme features

  • Lesson of the Evil

    Master Miike is not the gentle type. He owes his title of master to films with almost unbearable violence. The news helps him a bit this time: the fil

    • Spectrum

  • For Love’s Sake

    School kids as gangsters, dressed like pop stars. Arty choreographed fights and supplely sung drama. A story like Romeo and Juliet, based on a popular

    • Spectrum