Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

Nascimento : 1960-08-24, Yao, Japan

História

Takashi Miike (三池 崇史 Miike Takashi, born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly.

Perfil

Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike

Filmes

Lumberjack the Monster
Director
After Akira Ninomiya miraculously survives a brutal attacked by an unknown assailant wearing a "monster mask,"he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.
The Mole Song: FINAL
Director
Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.
The Great Yokai War –Guardians–
Director
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt yōkai. To save the world from being destroyed, Kei Watanabe challenges a war against the yōkai.
Police X Heroine Lovepatrina! Movie Version ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~
Director
Movie version of the series "Police x Heroine Lovepatrina!".
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~
Director
They'll take back your uncool heart to protect peace! One day cool director Piyoshi Kurosawa offers Phantomirage a sparkling big role! That's right, if this is the case, let's make everyone's heart flutter through the movie! However, Reverse Police's SakaSama found him! The director who is busy with the shoot is turned into an Ikenaier! With that, the movie will no longer be cool!
That Moment, My Heart Cried
Director
This project, a fusion of poetry, music, and movies, gives birth to a new style of filmmaking, through the work of five directors.
Primeiro Amor, o Último Yakuza
Director
Um jovem boxeador e uma garota de programa são apanhados em um esquema de tráfico de drogas ao longo de uma noite em Tóquio.
Laplace's Witch
Director
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins.
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1
Director
Um adolescente chamado Josuke Higashikata descobre que possui habilidades sobrenaturais; herdadas de uma linhagem amaldiçoada e bizarra que abrange gerações. Quando ele descobre que alguém dentro de sua cidade natal está concedendo a outros poderes semelhantes, Josuke inicia uma aventura para desvendar quem é esta misteriosa ameaça.
A Espada do Imortal
Director
Manji é um samurai altamente qualificado que foi torna-se amaldiçoado com a imortalidade após uma lendária batalha. Assombrado pelo brutal assassinato de sua irmã, o guerreiro sabe que só o combate ao mal recuperará sua alma. Por isso, ele decide ajudar uma jovem ousada que está movida pelo ódio e pela sede de vingança depois da morte de seus pais em um crime brutal.
Idol × Warrior: Miracle Tunes! Pilot
Director
The story revolves around the Music Kingdom, a land that contains musical treasures called Sound Jewels, which together produce the “Song of Blessings”. The Sound Jewels are stolen by the Demon King, who corrupts them into Negative Jewels. Through the Dokudoku-dan, the Negative Jewels are used to turn humans into Negative Jewelers to spread a Negative Aura for the Demon King to use in his plan to conquer the human world by composing an evil song. In order to recover the Sound Jewels, the goddess of the Music Kingdom sends the Fairy Rhythms Poppun, Rockie, and Clanosuke to the human world to seek help.
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
Director
As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
Terra Formars: Missão em Marte
Director
Em 2599, a Terra está em um grave estado de superpopulação. Felizmente, os cientistas enviaram quantidades extraordinárias de musgo e baratas a Marte há 500 anos, a fim de torná-lo apto para a vida humana.Embora os resultados tenham sido relativamente positivos, a primeira tentativa de colonização falhou dramaticamente.O governo está agora preparando uma segunda missão ultra-secreta liderada pelo instável Ko Honda, cuja equipe escolhida a dedo é composta de criminosos atraídos pela promessa de liberdade e uma recompensa em dinheiro em seu retorno.Eles permitiram algumas modificações genéticas, concedendo-lhes as características de vários insetos.
Yakuza Apocalypse
Director
Akira admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treat him like an idiot, and Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. An assassin is sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. Thus begins the apocalypse.
The Lion Standing in the Wind
Director
Koichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
As the Gods Will
Director
O estudante do ensino médio Shun Takahata está entediado. Entediado com a monotonia do dia-a-dia da escola e da vida, ele reza por mudanças, por algo emocionante. De repente, ele e seus colegas são forçados a jogar jogos infantis mortais e enfrentar criaturas aterrorizantes, desde uma boneca Daruma falante até um gato sortudo de garras afiadas.
Sobre o Seu Cadáver
Director
Oiwa é a protagonista de uma nova peça baseada na história de fantasmas "Yotsuya Kaidan". Ela usa sua influência para conseguir que seu amante, Kosuke Hasegawa, seja escalado para a peça, mesmo ele sendo um ator desconhecido e logo, o amor se transforma em rancor e cruza a linha tênue entre realidade e fantasia.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Director
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
Escudo de Palha
Director
Um grupo de policiais deve proteger a vida do assassino de uma menina. A razão: o prêmio por sua cabeça vale um bilhão de yenes, pagos pelo avô da garota. Agora, dezenas de caçadores de recompensa querem cobrar o dinheiro.
Lesson of the Evil
Screenplay
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the students and faculty through murder and manipulation. When he is caught in the act during preparations for the school cultural festival, he sees staging a massacre as the only way out.
Lesson of the Evil
Director
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer, who slowly takes control of the students and faculty through murder and manipulation. When he is caught in the act during preparations for the school cultural festival, he sees staging a massacre as the only way out.
Lesson of the Evil: Prologue
Producer
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.
For Love's Sake
Director
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu, who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko, a gang member who eyes Makoto.
Ace Attorney
Director
A história segue Phoenix Wright, um advogado iniciante que precisa enfrentar o experiente promotor Miles Edgeworth. Wright defende Maya Fey, acusada de matar sua própria irmã, Mia Fey. Baseado no popular vídeo game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
Hara-Kiri: Morte de um Samurai
Director
Procurando terminar sua vida com honra, o indigente samurai Hanshiro pede a um senhor feudal para cometer hara-kiri no pátio de sua propriedade. Tentando ignorar o desejo de Hanshiro de salvar sua reputação, o senhor conta a trágica história de um apelo semelhante feito há anos por um jovem ronin.
Ninja Kids!!!
Director
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
13 Assassinos
Director
A paz do Japão feudal de 1844 está sendo ameaçada por um tirano cruel e impiedoso chamado Naritsugu Matsudaira. Um veterano guerreiro chamado Shinzaemon Shimada é recrutado para deter o tirano. Ele reúne mais doze guerreiros para se unirem a ele em uma missão suicida que irá assassinar o lorde Matsudaira.
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
Director
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
Operação Corvo 2
Director
Genji e sua vitoriosa instituição encontram-se diante de um novo desafio lançado pelos alunos da temida Academia Hosen, que levam o nome de “The Army of Killers” As duas escolas, sempre tiveram uma história de sangue, entre si. O ódio está prestes a romper novamente e isto pode acabar com os últimos remanescentes da trégua que haviam observado até agora.
A Yakuza No Cinema
Himself
O documentário resgata a história do cinema Yakuza, com entrevistas de vários cineastas japoneses famosos, incluindo Takeshi Kitano e estrelas de cinema, bem como verdadeiros Yakuzas, membros da máfia japonesa.
Yatterman
Director
Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2. With the help of a dog-shaped robot, Yatterwoof, they take on the Doronbow gang, lead by the sexy Lady Doronjo. Together, they must stop the evil gang from finding the four magical skull pieces that will allow them to control the world!
God's Puzzle
Director
A set of twins -- one a hard-working student and the other a drifter -- team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe and to build one of their own.
Zatoichi Live
Director
Takashi Miike directs a stage version of Zatoichi, the tale of the blind swordsman.
Cell Phone Investigator 7: Pilot
Director
Masaka Kubota plays high-school student Keita, who leads a secret life as a "network investigator" for a secret organization. In the introductory episode, Keita has moved to a new school in Tokyo but doesn't like it. His best friend from his previous school comes to Tokyo and they run away together. Passing through a construction site the pair are attacked by a robot, but are then saved by a man named Takimoto and his strange sidekick — a cell phone with arms and legs. This Buddy Keitai cell phone with "human intelligence capabilities" will go on sale in Japan in April.
Operação Corvo
Director
A história é centrada numa guerra de gangues do colégio Suzuran Boys´ High - uma instituição que contém a maior concentração de rapazes violentos por metro quadrado do Japão. O colégio acabou ficando conhecido pela alcunha de Escola para Corvos, pois, no Japão, os pássaros são tão comuns - às vezes incômodos - quanto os pombos em algumas capitais brasileiras. Para passar o tempo, a molecada adora sair na porrada. E para saber quem é o maioral da escola, os rivais Genji e Tamao vão entrar em guerra até que sobre apenas um em pé.
Detective Story
Director
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Author
Há séculos o clã branco Genji, liderado por Yoshitsune, e o clã vermelho Heike, liderado por Kiyomori, batalham por um lendário tesouro enterrado em uma remota montanha. Esta guerra permanente acabou por esvaziar o lugar, que é praticamente habitado apenas pelos remanescentes dos grupos. Um dia, um estranho sem nome, taciturno e solitário, chega à cidade. Suas habilidades com a arma são impressionantes e seus tiros, certeiros. Os dois clãs fazem de tudo para cooptá-lo para o seu lado da guerra. Mas o forasteiro tem motivos bem mais profundos para estar naquele lugar.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Director
Há séculos o clã branco Genji, liderado por Yoshitsune, e o clã vermelho Heike, liderado por Kiyomori, batalham por um lendário tesouro enterrado em uma remota montanha. Esta guerra permanente acabou por esvaziar o lugar, que é praticamente habitado apenas pelos remanescentes dos grupos. Um dia, um estranho sem nome, taciturno e solitário, chega à cidade. Suas habilidades com a arma são impressionantes e seus tiros, certeiros. Os dois clãs fazem de tudo para cooptá-lo para o seu lado da guerra. Mas o forasteiro tem motivos bem mais profundos para estar naquele lugar.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Director
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
Animal Crossing: The Movie
Rakosuke (Pascal)
This is the story of a young self-reliant girl called Ai, who one day, moves into the Animal Village. While working at Tom Nook's shop "Nook's Cranny" she begins living her life away from her family. To begin with, she doesn't know left from right, but under the guidance of Mayor Tortimer, the angry but correct Mr. Resetti, and the wandering musician K.K. Slider among others, she is eventually accepted as a member of the village. One night as she walked along the beach, she finds a message in the bottle. It sets her off on a quest of planting pine trees around the village to fulfill a miracle on the eve of the Winter Festival
Waru: The End
Director
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
IMPRINT
Director
Passando-se no Japão do século XIX, um jornalista americano chamado Christopher (Billy Drago) chega à procura da mulher que ama, Komomo (Michie Itô), a quem havia prometido voltar para lhe dar uma nova vida. Levado na sua investigação para uma ilha onde o único sítio que existe é um bordel, Christopher vai passar a noite com uma estranha mulher (Youki Kudoh) e descobrir que finalmente Komomo foi executada por ter supostamente roubado um anel muito valioso. Devastado, Christopher suplica para saber mais pormenores e vai perceber da pior forma possível que há certos segredos que devem ficar no subconsciente. Adaptado do assombroso romance "Bokkee Kyoutee" de Shimako Iwai, "Imprint" promete muita subversão e choque, à boa maneira do realizador japonês Takashi Miike.
Sun Scarred
Director
Katayama está a caminho de casa quando tropeça em uma gangue de adolescentes espancando um sem-teto. Katamaya decide ajudar o estranho e surpreendentemente vence a luta. Ele começa a arrepender-se quando sua mulher e filha são seguidas um dia depois por um dos meninos nos quais ele bateu.
Hostel Dissected
Himself
The making of Eli Roth's "Hostel."
Like a Dragon: Prologue
Director
In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.
Waru
Director
A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
4,6 Billion Years of Love
Director
Dois jovens são encarcerados no mesmo dia, cumprindo penas por crimes de homicídio não relacionados. Yun, tímido e bem parecido, é alvo previsível de desejos e abusos por parte de outros prisioneiros, mas Shiro, frio e violento, sem pestanejar antes de enfrentar, a soco e pontapé, meia dúzia de oponentes, decide protegê-lo. Um dia, sem que nada o pudesse fazer prever, os guardas encontram Yun com as mãos em redor do pescoço de Shiro, já inerte. Como que a prever a incredulidade de todos, enquanto é levado pelos guardas, Yun assegura que foi ele quem matou Shiro. Dois detectives investigam o caso.
Hostel
Miike Takashi
Paxton e Josh são dois jovens americanos que decidem viajar pela Europa em busca de prazer, sexo e álcool. Na viagem conhecem Oli, um islandês. Seduzidos pelos relatos dele, decidem ir a um albergue numa cidade da Eslováquia onde pensam encontrar um oásis de drogas e sexo fácil. Mas nem tudo é a maravilha que aparenta.
The Great Yokai War
Screenplay
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
The Great Yokai War
Director
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.
Arthouse Ultraman
Director
In the 21st century, multiple mysterious phenomenon began to occur as monsters who were initially thought to be a part of mythology had come to life. These phenomenons had also resulted from human activities that disrupted the nature of the ecosystem. Ultraman Max is the titular giant of his series. Originally a civilization observer sent from Nebula M78, the sacrifice of Kaito Touma changed his mind into bonding with with the youth and actively defending Earth from monsters and alien attacks. Arthouse Ultraman is a movie with four episodes edited together, theatrically released at Fantasia Festival 2006.
Demon Pond
Director
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can't be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitabl
Ódio
Kaneda
Tudo começa nos tempos de escola, quando um valentão vive intimidando seu colega de classe até o dia que, em uma dessas ações, ele acaba derramando acidentalmente ácido vitriólico na cara do colega, fugindo com seus amigos logo depois do acidente. Dez anos se passam e o desfigurado vive atormentado com a lembrança do acidente, criando uma personalidade paralela para suportar o que passou. Quando ele se muda para o apartamento 13 do mesmo edifício onde o antigo valentão está morando, ele vê a chance de se vingar do que aconteceu nos tempos em que ambos eram apenas estudantes.
Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video
(archive footage)
Otakus in Love
Adaptação live-action de um mangá maluco sobre arte, opostos, amor e muito cosplay.
Izo
Director
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Box
Director
Short film part of "Three... Extremes", a horror film collaboration consisting of three segments by three directors from three countries. Kyoko, a 25 year-old novelist, frequently experiences nightmares of her past as a circus performer.
Três... Extremos
Director
Em "Box" uma bela romancista é assombrada pela memória de sua irmã gêmea, morta num acidente suspeito. Em "Dumplings" os bolinhos de Mei podem realizar o desejo secreto de toda mulher - a juventude eterna - mas a altíssimo preço. Para a ex-estrela de televisão Qing, entretanto, não existe custo alto demais. Em "Cut" Ryu Ji-Ho é um homem perfeito, que tem tudo na vida. Até o dia em que um estranho seqüestra sua esposa pianista e o obriga a matar uma criança inocente, para que sua mulher não perca os dedos.
Part-Time Detective 2
Director
The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Self
Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukasaku.
Zebraman
Director
Um pacato professor primário (vivido pelo ator Sho Aikawa) vive uma rotina cansativa e repleta de problemas familiares, sendo obcecado por um herói de sua infância chamado Zebraman, cuja série de TV fora cancelada há vários anos sem explicação. Então, para fugir dos seus problemas e lutar pela justiça ( ! ), ele resolve se fantasiar de Zebraman e sair em busca de missões a cumprir. Mas a situação fica mais bizarra ainda quando surgem supervilões alienígenas para dominar a Terra...
Uma Chamada Perdida
Director
Ao atender seu celular, uma adolescente ouve um grito aterrorizante, cuja voz ela reconhece. Nervosa, ela vai ver quem ligou e descobre que a mensagem vem do seu próprio celular, com data de três dias adiante. Inexplicavelmente, ela encontra uma morte horrível, na data e hora da chamada. A partir daí, outras pessoas começam a receber estas chamadas e o pânico se instala. Uma jovem que também recebe o telefonema e resolve descobrir o que está por trás disso tudo e a verdade é muito mais aterrorizante do que se possa imaginar.
The Making Of One Missed Call
An hour-long archival documentary on the film's production.
The Negotiator
Director
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. Through flashbacks, relevant information is revealed to the audience. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils from a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance.
A Última Vida no Universo
Yakuza
Kenji é um jovem bibliotecário japonês que mora em Bangkok, na Tailândia. Extremamente tímido, é obcecado por organização e pela morte (especialmente a dele mesmo e não necessariamente nessa ordem). De repente, uma tragédia coloca à sua frente Noi, uma garota que é o seu oposto: desencanada, expansiva e que vive em uma casa que parece ter brigado definitivamente com a vassoura e com o detergente há décadas. Depois de um início cheio de estranhezas, os dois vão se entendendo. Ok, pode parecer mais uma dessas histórias em que os opostos se atraem, onde a maluquinha conquista e é conquistada pelo cara tímido e estranho, mas não é bem assim… (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Gozu
Director
Ozaki é um grande agente de sua gang yakuza que começa a dar vários sinais de enlouquecimento. O chefe ordena Minami, seu parceiro, a levar Ozaki até a cidade de Nagoya e executá-lo, mas ao passarem por um pequeno vilarejo, enquanto Minami abastece o carro, Ozaki desaparece. Com medo de deixar um louco andando pela cidade, o rapaz vai procurá-lo, mas o lugar e seus habitantes não são exatamente o que Minami pensa.
Yakuza Demon
Director
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when the Family is involved in a conflict. Muto is unable to pay his share of funds for the oncoming battle but tells executives of the Family that he would fight at the front line instead. In the wish to protect Muto, Seiji has him arrested by the police. Ignoring the Family executives' mocks of "Muto escaped to prison", Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss...
The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Director
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
The Man in White
Director
After his father figure like mafia boss is murdered, Azusa Moribe (Masaya Sato) goes on a one man killing spree to exact revenge.
Part-Time Detective
Director
Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with the bank. But while looking for work will Hitoshi befriending Hibino, president of "K & D Research" a detective agency. This will give you the opportunity to spend a trial investigating an infidelity. So get to be a part-time detective Noriko.
Ichi The Killer: Episode 0
Kakihara (voice)
Um mafioso masoquista encontra seu adversário nas ruas sombrias de Tóquio. Seu inimigo, Ichi, é um assassino psicopata com uma sede indistinguível de derramamento de sangue. Um terrível segredo arde em sua mente, e suas mãos lidam com a morte sem misericórdia. Finalmente as mortalhas misteriosas são abertas para revelarem a origem do monstro. A cidade conhecerá seu meior medo na revelação de Ichi, O Assassino.
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Director
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
Pandoora
Director
A Takashi Miike directed music video
Shangri-La
Director
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Graveyard of Honor
Restaurant gunman
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Graveyard of Honor
Director
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Sabu
Director
When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.
Women's Kunishû Rebellion
Director
Onna Kuni Shuu Ikki is a 2002 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta and Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, both also directed by Miike.
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Director
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
DOA Final: Original Making-of Featurette
The behind the scenes special features making of Dead Or Alive Final.
Dead or Alive: Final
Director
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
Ichi, o Assassino
Director
Anjo, um chefe da máfia japonesa, a Yakuza, desaparece com três milhões de ienes. Os membros de sua gangue, liderados pelo masoquista Kakihara, saem em busca de Anjo, mas os métodos extremamente violentos do novo líder acabam chamando a atenção negativamente de gangues rivais. Tudo piora quando ele contrata o misterioso assassino psicopata Ichi, controlado por um policial aposentado.
The Making Of The Katakuris
In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film.
Agitator
Shinozaki
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
Agitator
Director
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
Family 2
Director
In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike's Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
Visitor Q
Director
Uma família completamente desestruturada: o pai, obsessivo com a profissão de jornalista, faz qualquer coisa para conseguir uma matéria polêmica; o filho, humilhado na escola constantemente pelos colegas, desconta sua frustração espancando a própria mãe todos os dias; a mãe, com a violência do filho e abandono do marido, prostitui-se para comprar heroína e aliviar-se; a filha, fugiu de casa e agora é prostituta, atendendo até mesmo o próprio pai. A vida de todos eles mudará quando um completo desconhecido começar a viver em sua casa, um homem que aos poucos vai restaurar a harmonia e amor que sentem uns pelos outros.
Family
Director
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi's wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
Kumamoto Stories
Director
Jidai-geki period / folklore type stories that were comissioned by the Kumamoto prefacture of Kyushu island in 1996 and filmed over a period of three years. Kumamoto Monogatari is a 2002 omnibus which includes the three short films: Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta, Onna Kunishuu Ikki.
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Director
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
The Guys from Paradise
Director
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his lawyers will clear up this misunderstanding fairly quickly. However, he soon comes to the realization that his innocence means less than how much bribe money he’s able to come up with for his release. It becomes apparent that Kohei is going to have to get to know his fellow inmates a little better, as he’s obviously in this situation for the long haul; but meeting a female inmate from a nearby jail certainly makes his transition to the criminal life a little easier to take.
The City of Lost Souls
Director
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
Making of Gemini
Director
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
DOA 2: Original Making-Of Featurette
The behind the scenes special features making of Dead Or Alive 2.
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
Disheveled man on a cart
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Story of Kikuchi Castle: Song of the Defenders
Director
Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta is a 2001 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu and Onna Kunishuu Ikki, both also directed by Miike.
Morrer ou Viver
Director
O policial Jojima está passando por uma pressão muito grande: seu casamento está acabando, sua filha precisa de 20 milhões de Ienes para fazer uma operação e alguém está matando todos os grandes mafiosos de cidade para controlar o mercado do tráfico de cocaína.
N-Girls Vs Vampire
Director
When a series of teenaged schoolgirl virgins are transformed into vampires,sexy high school student Man Koda (Ayana Sakai) and her friends take it upon themselves to locate the modelling agency responsible and track down and destroy the undead creatures behind it.
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Director
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.
O Teste Decisivo
Director
Sete anos após a morte de sua esposa, Aoyama, um executivo de uma grande empresa, é convidado para fazer parte da banca de avaliação na audição para selecionar uma atriz. Folheando os currículos com antecedência, sua atenção é capturada por Yamazaki Asami, uma jovem mulher impressionante e com formação de ballet. O intuito real de Aoyama é escolher uma nova esposa, o que ele não sabe são as verdadeiras intenções sanguinárias de Yamazaki. Uma obra de arte do terror.
Silver
Director
The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike's action-packed thriller. Aided by secret service colleague Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), Jun goes undercover as Silver, a formidable fighter in the professional women's wrestling circuit. But Jun's success in the ring doesn't distract her from her primary mission: exacting revenge on the Paradise gang.
Ley Lines
Director
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.
Man, a Natural Girl
Director
Miike's first television production in seven years (since 1992's Last Run), Tennen Shoujo Mahn (lit: Natural Girl Mahn) is an adaptation of a manga series by Tetsuya Koshiba about a schoolgirl with extraordinary fighting prowess.
Ambição dos Jovens
Director
Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
Golden Wolf: Resurrection 2
Blues Harp
Director
Chuji foi abandonado quando criança e agora na vida adulta trabalha em um bar, famoso por tocar blues ao vivo, e vende cocaína nas ruas para fazer dinheiro. Após uma briga Chuji conhece Kenji machucado em um beco, sendo perseguido por capangas da gangue para a qual Chuji vende as drogas; mesmo sem saber quem é o rapaz, ele salva sua vida. Kenji é membro de uma gangue importante e planeja sabotar o testamento de seu chefe para ficar com o controle dos negócios, agindo junto com a amante do líder. Após o encontro Chuji e Kenji torna-se amigos, mas a tensão entre as gangues rivais e o plano audacioso de Kenji pode colocar a vida deles em risco.
Andromedia
Director
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
The Bird people in China
Director
Wada é funcionário de uma multinacional japonesa e é escalado para fazer uma viagem à província de Yun Nan, China, para investigar uma possível descoberta de um valioso veio de pedras de jade. Wada sabe apenas que um guia o levará às montanhas, mas ao desembarcar e encontrá-lo descobre que foi seguido por um mafioso japonês que tem negócios pendentes com sua empresa.
Tunnel Fantasy: Dream Legend of Tonkararin
Director
Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu is a 1998 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta and Onna Kunishuu Ikki, both also directed by Miike.
Full Metal Yakuza
Director
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.
Rainy Dog
Director
Um assassino japonês fracassado vive em Taipei fazendo pequenos serviços para um chefe do crime na cidade. Quando seu chefe é morto e pensa que nada pode piorar, uma mulher aparece com um garoto que diz ser seu filho e deixa o menino aos seus cuidados.
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
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.
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Director
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.
Ambition Without Honor 2
Director
Tetsuya, a young yakuza, returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against dishonorable enemies and corrupt yakuza politics, he makes an unlikely ally in a rebel cop .
Fudoh: The New Generation
Director
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
The Way to Fight
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.
The Way to Fight
Director
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.
Peanuts
Director
Two mysterious tough guys infuriate a local gang after helping an elderly grocery store owner with his debts by robbing a yakuza organised gambling den.
Ambition Without Honor
Director
Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep the peace. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…
New Third Gangster II
Director
Soma goes to Masakis allowed back to his former gang, led by Takeda who asked for his help since he had problems controlling their own men. But one fears how Somas former assistant Kokubu, now second in command of Takeda, should react. Soon Soma assassinated by three hired men, but one of them, Karasaki, who has just escaped an assassin is still possible to Masaki for help, explaining that Kokubu hired him. Masaki agrees to help him, but this also means that he exposes himself to danger.
New Third Gangster
Director
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.
Shinjuku Triad Society
Director
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
Another Lonely Hitman
Drug Dealer
After serving 10 years in prison due to a drug-induced assassination of a rival gang boss Tachibana (Ryo Ishibashi) enters a world that's nothing like it was when he went in. Once a respected and feared Yakuza mastermind, he now must try and adapt within the confines of the new generations vision of honor. As he still garners a somewhat decent amount of respect he just tries to get by. Hooking up with a prostitute he's been in passing by with he begins to feel some sense of comfort. Upon stumbling across her being beaten down by her pimp, Tachibana can't just sit by and do nothing. So he commences in putting down an old school Yakuza ass whipping, thus beginning a showdown with the "now" boss, Sato.
Osaka Tough Guys
Director
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money for booze, who end up being drawn into the spiderweb of the yakuza. Gaijiro Saito and Sei Hiraizumi co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Bodyguard Kiba: Combat Apocalypse 2
Director
When a young karate student attempts to earn some extra cash by serving as bodyguard to a high-profile Hong Kong woman, the initial distraction of her beauty soon gives way to razor sharp focus as a series of attackers descend upon the pair.
The Third Gangster
Director
A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decide whether to disband his dwindling gang or fight.
Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage
Director
Kiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master's karate dojo. He gets the assignment to guard a young woman in Taipei...
Shinjuku Outlaw
Director
Shoichi Yomi bravely fights in an attempt to end an underworld battle in Hiroshima and as a result becomes a vegetable. Ten years later, Yomi comes to his senses and visits his former sworn brother, Eto, in Shinjuku. The devious Tagami, Yomi’s old enemy, is well acquainted with the Okumura gang which controlled Shinjuku. Learning of Yomi recovery, Tagami plots to line his own pockets by maneuvering the Okumura gang and a Taiwanese gang, between which a fight is about to erupt. Meanwhile, Yomi lends his help to the Okumura gang in order to save Eto, who has taken liberties with the family’s money. Everything appears to go according to Tagami’s plot, but in the chaotic town where evil competes and desires surge, two outlaws boldly rise above...
Kyouju Luger P08
A man's life is altered when he comes into possession of a gun.
We're No Angels 2
Director
Joe and his delivery company friends are back. This time they become embroiled in the evil plot of a corrupt politician.
We're No Angels
Director
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it's not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
Bodyguard Kiba
Director
Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.
A Human Murder Weapon
Director
A man dubbed "Karate Kid" is imprisoned and forced to fight for his life in an underground fighting ring.
Never Comeback
Associate Producer
A criminal breaks out of prison and is quickly back to his old ways.
Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal
Director
A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire's plot to rig the auction and takes action against him.
Lady Hunter: Prelude to Murder
Director
A female ex-soldier comes out of retirement to put a stop to the kidnapping of a young boy who is being used a political pawn.
Shimanto River
First Assistant Director
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.
Eyecatch Junction
Director
A group of female police officers form a secret detective division called Eyecatch Junction. They go undercover in a prostitute racket to investigate the murder of a young woman.
Chuva Negra
Assistant Director
Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Shizumas look for prospective husbands for Yasuko, but find that the families withdraw on finding out she was at Hiroshima.
Chuva Negra
Factory Worker
Shigematsu Shizuma lives with his senile mother, his wife Shigeko, and his niece Yasuko in a village near Fukuyama. He, his wife, his niece and his close friends in the village were present at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Shizumas look for prospective husbands for Yasuko, but find that the families withdraw on finding out she was at Hiroshima.