Miike Takashi
MIIKE Takashi (1960, Japan) graduated from the Yokohama Broadcasting Technical School (formerly known as Nihon Eiga Gakko), and later worked as an assistant director in works by Umetsugu Inoue, Sachio Noda, Hideo Onchi, Shohei Imamura. His directorial debut was Eyecatch Junction (1991), and his first theatrical film, Shinjuku Triad Society, was released in 1995. Miike’s work has been well received all over the world, and he has received many awards at international film festivals. One of his films, Audition, was selected in 2007 as one of TIME Magazine’s top 25 horror movies of all time. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
Dead or Alive (1999), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), Audition (2000), Ichi the Killer (2001), Gozu (2003), Dead or Alive: Final (2002), One Missed Call (2004), Zebraman (2004), The Great Yokai War (2005), Crows Zero (2007), Crows Zero 2 (2009), Yatterman (2009), 13 Assassins (2010), Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (2010), Ninja Kids!!! (2011), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011), Lesson of the Evil (2012), Straw Shield (2013), The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2014), The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio (2016), Blade of the Immortal (2017), Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (2017), Laplace’s Witch (2018), First Love (2020), The Mole Song: Final (2021), Lumberjack the Monster (2023), Blazing Fists (2025)
Miike Takashi at IFFR
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Blazing Fists
From a juvenile reformatory, two friends desperately try to change their place in Japanese society.
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The Mole Song: Final
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 6 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
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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.
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Ley Lines
The last part of Miike’s ‘Triad Society’ trilogy about the interaction between Chinese and Japanese gangsters. Against the backgr
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Audition
Hair-raising psychological thriller filled with scared thighs, addresses of houses that have been boarded up for years, impure whisky, acupuncture
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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 a
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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 th
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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 Auditi
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Yakuza-versus-Yakuza crime spectacle by the ever productive Miike. Wild montage, freely scattered minor perversities and apocalyptic action.
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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