With just a month to go until Nyaight of the Living Cat arrives on Crunchyroll, a newtrailer has arrived online from the upcoming anime series. Directed by Takashi Miike and Tomohiro Kamitani, and based on Hawkman and Mecha-Roots’ manga of the same name, the series sees a virus cause humans turn into cats after coming […]
WWE’s Liv Morgan joins Lily James and Shun Oguri in Takashi Miike’s Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo
Takashi Miike is on a roll right now, attaching himself to some of the hottest names in pop culture. Not only is the iconic and shocking Japanese filmmaker working with pop mega-star Charli XCX, but he’s also signed on for Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo with Neon, and he’s also assembling a wild cast for this one, […]
Takashi Miike Goes Brat: Charli XCX set for new film from legendary Japanese filmmaker
Charli XCX and Takashi Miike are the most unlikely duo in history, but our Brat Summer is extending to the cinema as Variety confirms Miike will direct a new film, with Charli XCX producing and starring. Ross Evans (How to Save a Marriage) is penning the screenplay. The singer-turned-filmmaker is producing through her new Studio365 […]
Takashi Miike: The Modern Godfather of Horror
EJ Moreno on Takashi Miike and his influence on horror… If you’re reading this now, you probably were the type of person who used to hunt for “the most disturbing movies of all time” lists. We’ve all been there, and it carried us all through a wild era. The need for shock films hit an […]
The Craziest Takashi Miike Movies
EJ Moreno on the wildest work of Japanese director Takashi Miike… With over 112 directing credits to his name, the word prolific doesn’t even begin to describe Takashi Miike. His films range from extreme horror to family-friendly romps; there’s no shortage of entertainment here. For this list, we will focus on a collection of the […]
Trailer for Takashi Miike-directed anime adaptation of Capcom’s Onimusha
Netflix has debuted a trailer and poster for Onimusha, prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike’s upcoming anime adaptation of Capcom’s action game series, which follows Miyamoto Musashi as he traverses a land plagued by poverty, slicing through evil; check them out here… Set in the early Edo Period, a time when Japan was transitioning towards peace, […]
Movie Review – First Love (2019)
First Love. 2019 Directed by Takashi Miike Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi SYNOPSIS:: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. One of the upsides of directing […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – First Love
First Love, 2019. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei Shiomi. SYNOPSIS: A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The latest film from the industrious […]
Takashi Miike’s First Love gets a new trailer and poster
With a little over three weeks to go until its theatrical release, a new trailer and poster arrived online for the Yakuza crime caper First Love. Directed by Takashi Miike, the film follows the story of a young couple – a boxer and a call girl – who fall in love while getting caught up […]
Takashi Miike’s First Love gets a teaser trailer
Ahead of its release this September, Well Go USA Entertainment has debuted a trailer for cult favourite Takashi Miike’s upcoming crime drama First Love which stars Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Shota Sometani, and Sakurako Konishi; watch it here… The film is the prolific auteur, Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic, a noir-tinged yakuza […]
