Takeshi Caesar
Nacimiento : 1955-08-17, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Samurai
El grito de Izo resuena en el lugar de ejecución, donde acaba de ser crucificado acusado de un asesinato. Muere, pero deja una profunda maldición. Su alma no puede ir al cielo ni al infierno, y quedará flotando en el espacio y el tiempo. Años después un vagabundo aparece entre los edificios. Es la reencarnación de Izo y tiene un claro objetivo: matar... (FILMAFFINITY)
Sequel to 'Fighting Knife Yoshi'
Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Riichi's uncle
Película que narra un período de la infancia de los protagonistas cuya adolescencia quedó retratada en "Young Thugs: Innocent Blood" y en la que el director introduce nuevamente elementos autobiográficos.
Tosa
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. Takashi Miike directs this action-packed sci-fi thriller that takes its cues from the more mainstream Robocop but amps up the violence for maximum effect.
A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical-- Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
Akihiro Gondo
Para resolver una disputa comercial, un líder de la mafia asesina a uno de sus propios hijos adolescentes. El hijo sobreviviente jura vengar la muerte de su hermano y organiza a su propia banda de asesinos adolescentes para destruir la organización de su padre.
Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ready to face off against Takeshi, but comic challenges keep his nemesis out of reach. It's not until years later -- when Kazuyoshi becomes a championship boxer and Takeshi is a pro wrestler -- that they meet again in a battle that pits two combatants with very different fighting styles.
When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.
Karino
Primera de las tres películas que integran la trilogía Kuroshakai ("Sociedad Negra"), unidas por tema más que por personajes o argumento, a la que siguen "Rainy Dog" y "Ley Lines". En esta, la trama gira alrededor de una batalla mafiosa por el control del distrito de Shinjuku. Cuando la banda taiwanesa Garra del Dragón intente hacerse con el dominio de la venta de droga, el cobro de extorsiones y la prostitución gay de esa zona, un policía solitario intentará evitar una carnicería.
A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.