Takashi Miike — Director (96)
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As the Gods Will (2014)
神さまの言うとおり
director: Takashi Miike actor: Sota Fukushi / Ryunosuke Kamiki …
other title: Jeux d'enfants / 神さまの言うとおり …
High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.
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TV

Masters of Horror Season 1 (2005) TMDB Douban
Masters of Horror Season 1 part of TV Series: Masters of Horror
director: 唐·柯斯卡莱利 / 斯图尔特·戈登 … actor: 蜷川美穗 / 安东尼·哈里森 …
"Masters of Horror" ist eine von Mick Garris angestoßene TV-Anthologie von Horrorfilmen. Die einzelnen, alle um die 60 Minuten langen Episoden sind von namhaften Regisseuren gedreht. Die Produktionsrahmen sind für alle etwa dieselben, weswegen die Episoden visuell und vom stilistisch vergleichbar sind. Inhaltlich sind sie sehr unterschiedlich. Die Spezialeffekte sind in Einzelfällen recht drastisch und schockierend in Szene gesetzt..
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One Missed Call (2003)
着信アリ
★ 6.2 (6 ratings) director: Takashi Miike actor: Ko Shibasaki / Shinichi Tsutsumi …
other title: The Call - Non rispondere / Mistet opkald …
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
46億年の恋
director: Takashi Miike actor: Ryuhei Matsuda / Masanobu Ando …
other title: 46億年の恋
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
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Ichi the Killer (2001)
殺し屋1
★ 6.8 (12 ratings) director: Takashi Miike actor: Tadanobu Asano / Nao Omori …
other title: Ichi The Killer / Ichi - O Assassino …
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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TV

Cellphone Investigator 7 (2008) TMDB
ケータイ捜査官７
director: Takashi Miike actor: Masataka Kubota / Kanji Tsuda …
other title: ケータイ捜査官７
Seeking an escape from his mundane life, high-schooler Keita Amishima stumbles into the secret life of an agent of UNDER ANCHOR - a covert organisation combating cyber terrorism. Keita isn't alone, as he is partnered with an A.I. - the Phone Braver "Seven".

Together, Keita and Seven work to counter cyber crimes, all the while dealing with the machinations of a rogue Phone Braver, "Zero One".
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TV

QP (2011) TMDB Douban
part of TV Series: QP
director: 三池崇史 / 渡辺武 … actor: 斋藤工 / 金子统昭 …
因为拳头意外受伤，前拳击手美咲元（林遣都 饰）的冠军之梦彻底破灭。在最落魄绝望的时刻，他邂逅了沉默寡言、冷酷无情黑社会我妻凉（斎藤工 饰）。我妻是当地名为“天狼会”黑社会组织的大哥，其左膀右臂Tom（金子ノブアキ 饰）和Jerry（渡部豪太 饰）更是出手不凡的狠角色。为我妻的神秘魅力所吸引，美咲义无反顾地加入天狼会。沸腾着新鲜血液的天狼会自然不会安于现状，其种种迹象引起了当地另外两大黑帮组织横沟组和古岩组的不安，城市平静的空气中弥漫着一丝血雨腥风的肃杀气息。信奉弱肉强食的死神我妻凉将迎来人生最重要的时刻……
本片根据漫画家高桥弘的人气漫画《QP》外传改编。
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13 Assassins (2010)
十三人の刺客
director: Takashi Miike actor: Koji Yakusho / Takayuki Yamada …
other title: 13 assassini / 13 Assassinos …
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
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Imprint (2006)
インプリント〜ぼっけえ、きょうてえ〜
director: Takashi Miike actor: Billy Drago / Youki Kudoh …
other title: La Maison des sévices / Huella …
An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002)
カタクリ家の幸福
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kenji Sawada / Keiko Matsuzaka …
other title: The happiness of the Katakuris / La mélodie du malheur …
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.