Takashi Miike is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Takashi Miike
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Takashi Miike has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991.
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Takashi Miike's films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly movies.
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Takashi Miike is a controversial figure in the contemporary Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence.
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Takashi Miike's father worked as a welder and his mother as a seamstress.
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Takashi Miike still directs V-Cinema productions intermittently due to the creative freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the medium and the riskier content that the producers will allow.
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Takashi Miike gained international fame in 2000 when his romantic horror film Audition, his violent yakuza epic Dead or Alive, and his controversial adaptation of the manga Ichi the Killer played at international film festivals.
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Takashi Miike has since gained a strong cult following in the West that is growing with the increase in DVD releases of his works.
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Takashi Miike is known for his dark sense of humor and for pushing the boundaries of censorship as far as they will go.
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Takashi Miike has created lighthearted children's films, period pieces, a road movie, a teen drama, a farcical musical-comedy-horror, video game adaptations, and character-driven crime dramas.
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Takashi Miike expressed admiration for directors Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Gosha, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Paul Verhoeven.
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Several of Takashi Miike's films have been subject to scrutiny due to heavy violence.
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In 2005, Takashi Miike was invited to direct an episode of the Masters of Horror anthology series.
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In 2005 Takashi Miike directed a Kabuki-style play titled Demon Pond.