Takashi Miike

So Quentin Tarantino called Takashi Miike one of the world's greatest living directors.

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Samurai films, such as Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins and kung-fu movies such as Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame did battle with Darren Aronofsky's ballet thriller Black Swan, Sofia Coppola's Hollywood bubble essay Somewhere and Tom Tykwer's upscale Berlin sex comedy, Drei.

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Cult directors like Takashi Miike (who will be present for a Tuesday screening of his film "Dead or Alive") and Takeshi Kitano ("Outrage: The Way of the Modern Yakuza") bend it to their own twisted wills.

Living in the Past, Fearing the Future Steve Dollar 2011

Cult heroes like Takashi Miike and Sion Sono revel in pushing the limits of whatever genre they're tackling, whether it's the samurai battle royale that concludes the former's "13 Assassins," or the absurdist gore of the latter's "Cold Fish" both of which are due to play New York screens soon.

Characters Attack Steve Dollar 2011

Takashi Miike's new film Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai -- in three D -- starts with an intriguing although unbearably long ritual scene of hara kiri, where a man keeps twisting a dull bamboo sword in his gut, to no avail, while samurai stand in formation, until a sword-man finally swipes off his head.

Karin Badt: Cannes 2011: Director Takashi Miike Speaks About Samurai Ritual Suicide Karin Badt 2011

Most everyone seems in agreement on the latest film from Takashi Miike.

Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Eight, Nine and Ten: "Melancholia" As Von Trier and Almodovar Disappoint Michael Giltz 2011

Andrew Burton for The Wall Street Journal Tom Quinn, the executive vice president of Magnet Releasing, in his Midtown office Mr. Quinn, 41 years old, gets excited when he talks about the old-school samurai epic "13 Assassins," which has put the prolific Japanese cult director Takashi Miike "Audition" on mainstream American screens for the first time.

At Play in the House of Blood and Guts Steve Dollar 2011

The resulting two seasons' worth of films were a mixed bag, according to reviews, but horror aficionados seemed pleased that the project happened on television at all save for Takashi Miike's "Imprint," which was released only on DVD after the network deemed it too disturbing to air.

Will American Horror Story Be a Hit for FX? A Look at the Recent History of Horror on TV 2011

'13 Assassins' Right makes might in Takashi Miike's excellent—and exceedingly violent—remake of a 1966 Japanese classic by Eiichi Kudo.

'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel Joe Morgenstern 2011

Most everyone seems in agreement on the latest film from Takashi Miike.

Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Eight, Nine and Ten: "Melancholia" As Von Trier and Almodovar Disappoint Michael Giltz 2011