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13 ASSASSINS
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Takashi Miike's remake of the 1963 jidai-geki of the same name is faithful to the original plot, but the violence and visual style are all his own. Set in 1844 towards the end of the Shogunate, a sadistic lord, Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), is in line to take the throne. Fearful of the abominations to come, some royals hire an elder samurai (Koji Yakusho, Tokyo Sonata) to sever Naritsugu's bloodline. In true mythic fashion, the swordsman assembles a small band of brothers to help lure Naritsugu and his army into a tiny, booby-trapped village, where the outnumbered men will pounce. Seven Samurai is an obvious point of reference, but by the big finale, we've learned less about the jaded assassins and more about the glory of going out in a bloodbath. Nominated for the Golden Lion at Venice. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Takashi Miike---Japan---2010---125 mins.
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ANDROMEDIA
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Computer technology advances lead to deadly circumstances in this sci-fi/action amalgam from the great Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer). After his daughter's death, a distraught father throws himself into his ongoing research on memory preservation on microchips until he is able to recapture his daughter's essence in a computer. His new discovery prompts interest from a large corporation who will stop at nothing to possess it. In Takashi Miike---Japan---2000---109 mins.
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AUDITION (2-DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION)
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Cult director Takashi Miike's cinematic outrage is an unforgettable horror shocker that builds from quietly creepy scenes to an explosion of some of the most graphic and disturbing images ever put on the screen. A middle-aged widower is encouraged to start dating again, and his TV producer pal sets up a phony project so his friend can "audition" potential mates. He seems to find a perfect match with a shy, beautiful young woman, but she is not who she appears to be. "...a lethally poised Venus flytrap of a movie" (Dennis Lim, The Village Voice). This is the uncut version, absolutely not for the squeamish. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1999---115 mins.
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BIG BANG LOVE, JUVENILE A
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Never one to settle into a genre, cult director Takashi Miike adapts Ikki Kajiwara and Hisao Maki's homoerotic prison novel into an ambiguous drama that keeps audiences at bay with Godardian devices, but invites attention with its visual brilliance. Two new arrivals at a juvenile detention center are drawn together by their different backgrounds. Jun (Ryuhei Matsuda), a young gay man charged with murder, is taken under the wing of Shiro (Masanobu Ando), a tattoo-covered brute with a tormented childhood. Their surreal journey plays out against the very real backdrop of a prison murder investigation. "Big Bang Love joins Gozu and Izo in the Miike pantheon of hard-edged ontological essays pushing the limit of representation" (Nathan Lee, Village Voice). An Official Selection at the Berlin Film Festiva l. Also known as 46 Oku Nen No Koi, or 4.6 Billions Years of Love. In Takashi Miike---Japan---2006---85 mins.
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BIRD PEOPLE IN CHINA
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A Japanese salary man is sent to investigate a claim of jade in a small Chinese village. Guided by an elderly explorer, he is led on a spiritual adventure that changes his fundamental view of life. Prolific director Takashi Miike takes a sojourn from ultraviolent filmmaking (Ichi The Killer) with this sensitively rendered drama. Rather than dazzling with extreme sex and violence, Miike finds ways to arrest his viewers with lush cinematography and emotional warmth. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1998---118 mins.
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BLACK SOCIETY TRILOGY
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Three key early films from Japanese auteur Takashi Miike that show a master director forging a style that would take the world of international cinema by storm. Violent, bleak and fast-paced, the yakuza films that make up the Black Society Trilogy are visual wonders and, while thematically linked, each exists as a complete, stand-alone film. Includes Shinjuku Triad Society (1995, 102 mins.); Rainy Dog (1997, 95 mins.) and Ley Takashi Miike---Japan---1995/1997/1999---302 mins.
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BODYGUARD KIBA
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Cult director Takashi Miike presents this over-the-top violent slugfest based on a popular comic. Naoto Kiba is hired to protect the Soryukai Family from enemies with no weapons. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1993---93 mins.
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BODYGUARD KIBA 2 COMBAT SUBT.
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Director Takashi Miike and screenwriter Hisao Maki are back with this paean to criminal carnage. A young student at a school of karate is hired to protect a beautiful Hong Kong woman. His hopes for an easy assignment are dashed, however, when it's clear she's more trouble than he imagined. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1994---64 mins.
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CROWS ZERO
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Shape-shifting cult director Takashi Miike adapts a manga by Hiroshi Takahashi into this youth oriented action movie about an all-boys high school dominated by rival gangs. When a mobster's son (Shun Oguri) enrolls, he unites the lesser factions in a bid to seize power from the largest gang and prove to his father that he can run the family business. "...boisterous and energetic throughout...loaded with the kinds of quirky touches...and bursts of oddball comedy that make [Miike] so unique" (Todd Brown, Twitch). In Japanese Takashi Miike---Japan---2007---96 mins.
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DEAD OR ALIVE
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Step into the warped world of Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer), "one of the most exciting, versatile directors working today" (New York Post). This surreal, high-voltage crime thriller about a cop caught betwee n the Japanese Yakuza and a group of Chinese gangsters in an intense gang war finds Miike at his best, creating a shocking and over-the-top kaleidoscope of ultra violence, sex, drugs and mayhem. "A full-gore gangster story" (San Francisco Examiner). In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---2000---104 mins.
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DEAD OR ALIVE 2
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The second installment in Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive series adds lyrically comtemplative touches to the spree of violence begun in the original, and offers a new story with the same lead actors, Sho Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi. When two rival yakuza hitmen realize that they are long-lost childhood friends, they team up to pay off their spiritual debts by becoming killers-for-hire and donating their money to children's charities. In Japanese Takashi Miike---Japan---2000---97 mins.
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DEAD OR ALIVE TRILOGY
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Takashi Miike's three outrageous odes to violence, crime and black humor find a home in this exclusive boxed set. Includes the original Dead or Alive (2000, 104 mins.), which finds a cop caught between the Japanese Yakuza and a group of Chinese gangsters in an intense gang war; Dead or Alive 2 (2000, 97 mins.), where two hitmen team up to pay off their spiritual debts in blood; and the futuristic Dead or Alive Final (2002, 88 mins.), which finds an underground group rebelling against the tyrannical ruler of Yokoham a. Takashi Miike---Japan---2000-2002---289 mins.
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DEAD OR ALIVE- FINAL
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Post-apocalyptic Yokohama in the year 2346 is the setting for the bizarre third installment of Takashi Miike's wild Dead or Alive series. Cruel dictator Woo rules the city-state with an iron fist, prohibiting procreation and requiring everyone to take mood-altering birth control pills. When a small band of rebels kidnap the son of Yokohama's top super-cop (Riki Takeuchi), they unleash a barrage of insane revenge. Also stars Show Aikawa as a humanoid robot with Superman-like powers. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---2002---88 mins.
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DEADLY OUTLAW- REKKA
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Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive, Audition) ventures back into the Japanese yakuza underworld to deliver another supreme amalgam of gangster cool, manga-inspired violence and general insanity. Miike regular Riki Takeuchi stars as a hitman looking for the men behind his boss's brutal murder. The truth, however, proves to be closer than expected. Essential viewing for Miike fans. Features a brief cameo by Sonny Chiba. In Japanese with English Takashi Miike---Japan---2002---96 mins.
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FAMILY ( TAKASHI MIIKE )
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Prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike adapts Hisao Maki's popular manga into this violent, bloody actioner. A hitman out to off a member of a feuding Yakuza family is eyed by a woman before the assignment is completed. When he falls in love with the witness, danger ensues for himself and his own family. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---2001---78 mins.
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FAMILY 2
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Not Takashi Miike's finest hour, but it's still one of Japan's most exciting directors working in the action-drenched yakuza genre. Kouichi Iwaki investigates the murder of a crime boss. Many a yakuza gets killed in the process. Based on a comic by Hisao Maki. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---2001---80 mins.
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FUDOH: DELUXE EDITION
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A highly stylized, extremely violent yakuza film that has earned many fans with its energetic brand of action. Traumatized as a child after witnessing his brother's grisly murder at the hands of his own father, Riki Fudoh grows up hiding his rage and plotting his revenge. Organizing his own yakuza mob to take on his father's, Rikki leads the gangsters of his generation in a brutal war upon the old guard. This is the uncut and uncensored version of the cult favorite. In English and Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1996---100 mins.
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FULL METAL YAKUZA
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This rare, straight-to-video excursion from one of Japan's most gifted auteurs was made very fast and for little money, yet still shows a director in full command of his vision and of the exploitation genre. Miike uses familiar territory - the yakuza, cartoonish violence, gore, sex, humor and breakneck pacing - to tell the story of a murdered gangster who is given a second chance at life and revenge when he is revived by a mad scientist and fitted with robotic parts. In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---1997---103 mins.
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GOZU
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Takashi Miike blends horror and yakuza genres unlike any other with this shocking wonder. When a hitman is ordered to kill his brother, who is in the middle of an unusual nervous breakdown, both are plunged down a dark path of violence, mother's milk, strange characters, cow-headed beasts and general twisted madness. An incredible film that shows Miike at the top of his form. "The man is a genius! He surpasses Lynch in pure weirdness" (Film Threat). In Japanese with English subtitles. Takashi Miike---Japan---2003---129 mins.
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GRAVEYARD OF HONOR (MIIKE)
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Takashi Miike's remake of Kinji Fukasaku's violent yakuza thriller, based on the life of a real mob madman. Rikuo Ishimatsu (Goro Kishitani), a poor dishwasher, saves the life of a yakuza boss and quickly rises through the ranks of the Japanese crime underworld, thanks in large part to his unswerving loyalty and utter brutality. Still, most yakuza adhere to a code of honor. Ishimatsu is not one of those yakuza. "It's raw and it's uncompromising, but it's also thoughtful, deeply emotional and rich in significance" (Tom Mes, Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike). In Japanese with English Takashi Miike---Japan---2002---131 mins.
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