Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is set to unleash his 100th film, Blade of the Immortal, upon Cannes this coming week, and Magnet Releasing has announced that it has acquired the rights to the project for release in the United States. Based on Hiroaki Samura’s manga series, Blade of the Immortal takes place in Japan during […]
Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse to receive UK theatrical release in January
Manga Entertainment has announced that cult Japanese director Takashi Miike’s vampire-gangster genre mashup Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld is set for a theatrical release here in the UK this January. SEE ALSO: Watch the red band trailer for Yakuza Apocalypse here Featuring Miike’s signature blend of deranged horror, slapstick and action, Yakuza […]
Warner Bros. and Toho teaming up for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie from Takashi Miike
Cult filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is set to bring Hirohiko Araki’s bestselling manga series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure to the big screen, with Variety reporting that Warner Bros. and Toho are teaming up to produce the live-action adaptation. The site reports that the movie will be based on the fourth part of the […]
DVD Review – Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
Yakuza Apocalypse, 2015. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Denden, Lily Franky, Hayato Ichihara, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Masanori Mimoto, Riko Narumi, Yayan Ruhian, and Raiko Takashima. SYNOPSIS: A Yakuza Vampire boss is betrayed by members of his clan, and is consequently killed; the duty befalls onto his most loyal protégé to take revenge, and to comply with […]
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 […]
Plot details for Takashi Miike’s new film First Love revealed
Prolific Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is set to unleash his latest project at the Cannes Film Festival next month with the premiere of First Love, and thanks to Deadline we’ve got some plot details for the action thriller. As per the site, First Love is set over a single night in Tokyo and follows “Leo, […]
Blu-ray Review – Terra Formars (2016)
Terra Formars, 2016. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Shun Oguri, Emi Takei, Kane Kosugi, and Hideaki Itô. SYNOPSIS: In the 24th century a group of social misfits are sent to Mars on a mission to destroy cockroaches sent there years before, only the roaches have evolved slightly. Based on the manga […]
