Takeshi Miike Archives

You never know what Takeshi Miike will do next as a movie, much less make a 20-minute action movie called Midnight on an iPhone 15 Pro Well, that's what he and Apple suddenly sprang on us out of nowhere The other surprise? It's from one of the most little-known manga by God of Manga Osamu[...]

Crunchyroll's December 2022 line-up also includes Millennium Actress, Takeshi Miike's live-action version of As The Gods Will & more.

And this series was a massive hit in Japan, still spawning video games, a rebooted anime series in 2008, an animated movie and even a live action movie in 2009 directed by Takeshi Miike, who is a huge fan Doronjo is the series' first live action TV spinoff. Elaiza Ikeda, key art: Wowow "The shocking past of[...]

Nearly half of Takeshi Miike's movies are in the Yakuza genre, from the realistic ones to the gonzo insane ones The chivalrous Yakuza with a heart of gold is a myth that the real-life Yakuza is perfectly happy to keep around It's present in the Yakuza ("Ryo ga Gotoku") video games  I suspect by now[...]

The Mole Song–Hong Kong Capriccio – (C)2016 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, SHOGAKUKAN, J STORM, TOHO, OLM (C)NOBORU TAKAHASHI, SHOGAKUKAN It wouldn't be a New York Asian Film Festival without at least one Takeshi Miike movie People don't write about him that often anymore He might have become taken for granted after he was first discovered in the[...]

His movies include social comedies like The Quiet Family (about an unlucky family running a country inn whose guests keep dropping dead, remade by Takeshi Miike into his wacky musical The Happiness of the Katakuris), The Foul King (about a loser who finds fame as a masked pro wrestler), gothic horror like A Tale of[...]