Takashi Miike

Date of Birth: August 24, 1960
Place of Birth: Yao, Osaka, Japan

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Takashi Miike mini-bio: Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. Miike has directed over sixty theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002, Miike is credited with directing no fewer than fourteen productions.

Although Miike claimed to have attended classes only rarely, he graduated from Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film (Yokohama Hoso Eiga Senmon Gakko) under the guidance of renowned filmmaker Shohei Imamura, the founder and Dean of that institution. His very first films were television productions, but he also began directing several direct-to-video V-Cinema releases. (These were purportedly financed as money-laundering operations for the yakuza, although there has never been any conclusive proof of this.) Miike still directs V-Cinema productions intermittently due to the creative freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the medium and the riskier content that the producers will allow. Miike's theatrical debut was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995). The film showcased his extreme style and his recurring themes, and its success gave him the freedom to work on higher-budgeted pictures. Shinjuku Triad Society is also the first film in what is labeled his "Black Society Trilogy", which also includes Rainy Dog (1997) and Ley Lines (1999). He gained international fame in 2000 when his romantic horror film Audition (1999) and his violent yakuza epic Dead or Alive (1999) played at international film festivals. He has since gained a strong cult following in the West that is growing with the increase in DVD releases of his works.

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Homerisagod

this guy is a crap director! he is easily Japan's crappiest ever director!

posted 180 days ago
Dave328

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaJnKkg0Qys

For all Miike fans that havent heard of the Masters of Horror check out this trailer for Imprint Takashi Miike's short film it looks truly messed up.

posted 837 days ago
asiantribe

Love your J-Horror movies please keep `em coming!

posted 1070 days ago