Takashi Miike

A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people’s organs.

Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life ...

A set of twins — one a hard-working student and the other a drifter — team up with a dropout to unlock the secrets of the universe ...

Gan and his girlfriend Ai are mild-mannered toy shop owners by day but, when evil lurks, they transform into superheroes Yatterman 1 & 2. ...

Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when ...

Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems ...

Shangri-La (Kin’yu hametsu Nippon: Togenkyo no hito-bito) follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly ...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s film “Gemini”.

Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta is a 2001 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films ...

A man dubbed “Karate Kid” is imprisoned and forced to fight for his life in an underground fighting ring.

Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa’s largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.

Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy ...

Kiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master’s karate dojo. He gets the assignment to guard a young woman in Taipei…

A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must ...

In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother’s ...

A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical– Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year ...

After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous ...

Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home ...

Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their ...

Wada (Masahiro Motoki), a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada ...

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox ...

The story in “Silver” is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun ...

In the film, which wrapped in mid-June, the cop-gangster hero, Reiji (Ikuta Toma), goes on a mission to stop a drug shipment with a $5.4 billion ...

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than ...

Being a failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as “Zebraman”, the superhero. ...

“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In “Dumplings” an aging actress wishing to ...

When a young man is sent to a prison workhouse for a crime he did not commit his friend on the outside must find evidence to clear his name.

After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, ...

Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are ...

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.