people: Takashi Miike
2019
'Izo': Takashi Miike's Death (And Resurrection) Mantra November 11, 2019
Even longtime Takashi Miike fans were alienated by this mix of Miike's fetishes, 'Slaughterhouse-Five', and William S. Burroughs's space-age shamanism, but it deserves fresh eyes and open minds
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2018
'Ichi The Killer': The (Sado)Masochism Tango March 23, 2018
Nearly twenty years later, this remains Takashi Miike's most notorious film, but notoriety is about all it has left going for it
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'Blade Of The Immortal': Die Another Day March 01, 2018
A great manga-to-screen adaptation, a good-to-great Takashi Miike picture, and a slightly overlong and ragged samurai flick, in roughly that order
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2016
Is This The Real Life, Or Is This Just Fantasy? December 20, 2016
Live-action adaptations of anime are arriving at a head-turning pace. Is that great news for fans, or a portent for a flood of mediocre cash-grabs to come?
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