Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins) has secured financing for his latest Yakuza film The Outsider, which will mark a rare English language outing for the cult Japanese filmmaker.
The film is set to star Tom Hardy (Warrior, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road) as “a former G.I. in post-WWII Japan who joins a Yakuza crime family.”
The Outsider has been written by Andrew Baldwin (Logan’s Run) from a story by John Linson (Sons of Anarchy) and will be Miike’s first English language film since 2007’s Sukiyaki Western Django, a spaghetti western which featured Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino among its cast.
Originally published October 30, 2013. Updated April 11, 2018.
