Takashi Miike — Director (79)
Crows Zero (2007) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
クローズZERO
6.6 (5 ratings) director: Takashi Miike actor: Shun Oguri / Kyosuke Yabe
other title: Operação Corvo / クローズZERO
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
SABU (2002) [Movie] Douban
〜さぶ〜
director: 三池崇史 actor: 藤原龙也 / 妻夫木聪
other title: 左武 / 〜さぶ〜
江户时代,同在锦文屋工作的荣二(藤原龙也 饰)和左武(妻夫木聪 饰)从小是一对好朋友。某天,主人丢失名贵绸缎,继而在荣二的口袋里搜出赃物。被诬陷的荣二遭到毒打,随后流放至荒凉的石川岛做苦役。
左武思念好友,经常利用休息日坐船去小岛探望荣二,却也一度遭到好友的怀疑。同在锦文的侍女牧江(吹石一惠 饰)和与两个男孩一起长大的舞子(田畑智子 饰)皆心仪荣二,并一心等待他的归来。而深陷囹圄的荣二遭受了无数的苦难,他从未放弃追寻真相的念头……
三池崇史时代剧处女作,根据山本周五郎同名原著改编。
Over Your Dead Body (2014) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
喰女 ―クイメ―
director: Takashi Miike actor: Ichikawa Ebizo XI / Ko Shibasaki
other title: Kuime - Over Your Dead Body / Over your Dead Body
An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.
Terraformars (2016) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
テラフォーマーズ
director: 三池崇史 actor: 伊藤英明 / 武井咲
other title: 火星异种 / テラフォーマーズ
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
Audition (2000) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
オーディション
director: Takashi Miike actor: Ryo Ishibashi / Eihi Shiina
other title: Anjo ou Demónio / オーディション
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Audition (2000) [Movie]
オーディション
director: Takashi Miike actor: Ryo Ishibashi / Eihi Shiina
other title: Anjo ou Demónio / 切肤之爱
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) [Movie] TMDB
新宿黒社会 チャイナマフィア戦争
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kippei Shiina / Takeshi Caesar
other title: 新宿黒社会 チャイナマフィア戦争 / Shinjuku Killers
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
Dead or Alive: Final (2002) [Movie] TMDB
DEAD OR ALIVE FINAL
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Riki Takeuchi
other title: Dead or Alive 3 / DEAD OR ALIVE FINAL
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb
DEAD OR ALIVE 2 逃亡者
director: Takashi Miike actor: Shô Aikawa / Riki Takeuchi
other title: Dead or Alive 2 / Dead or Alive 2 Sangre Yakuza
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Dead or Alive (1999) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者
director: Takashi Miike actor: Riki Takeuchi / Show Aikawa
other title: DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者 / Dead or alive I
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Rainy Dog (1997) [Movie] TMDB Douban
極道黒社会
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Gao Ming-Chun
other title: 極道黒社会 / 极道黑社会
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Ley Lines (1999) [Movie] TMDB
日本黒社会 LEY LINES
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuki Kitamura / Dan Li
other title: 日本黒社会 LEY LINES
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Blues Harp (1998) [Movie] TMDB
Blues Harp
director: Takashi Miike actor: Hiroyuki Ikeuchi / Seiichi Tanabe
Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy of Chuji.
Demon Pond (2005) [Movie] TMDB
夜叉ヶ池
director: Takashi Miike actor: Shinji Takeda / Tomoko Tabata
other title: 夜叉ヶ池
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess, and a pact that can't be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism, and between social obligation and personal desire drive the narrative toward a dramatic conclusion where the worlds of the real and the surreal inevitabl
Zebraman (2004) [Movie] TMDB
ゼブラーマン
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Kyoka Suzuki
A failure as a teacher and a familyman, Shinichi tries to escape everyday live by dressing up as the superhero "Zebraman". Although the TV series was canceled after only 6 episodes, this cannot stop him from acting out his escapist fantasy in a self made zebra-suit. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing to stand between absolute (green) evil and a happy ending.
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) [Movie] TMDB
実録・安藤昇侠道(アウトロー)伝 烈火
director: Takashi Miike actor: Riki Takeuchi / Sonny Chiba
other title: 実録・安藤昇侠道(アウトロー)伝 烈火
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, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
Gozu (2003) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 GOZU
director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Yūta Sone
other title: 極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 GOZU / Gozu. El camino a la locura
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Osaka Tough Guys (1995) [Movie] TMDB
なにわ遊侠伝
director: Takashi Miike actor: Sei Hiraizumi / Kentarou Nakakura
other title: なにわ遊侠伝 / OSAKA TOUGH GUYS
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money for booze, who end up being drawn into the spiderweb of the yakuza. Gaijiro Saito and Sei Hiraizumi co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Izo (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
IZO
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuya Nakayama / Kaori Momoi
other title: IZO / Izo - The world can never be changed
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.