takashi miike

If you would’ve told fans of Takashi Miike five years ago that their favorite enfant terrible would some day direct a big budget period piece that would go on to receive a good deal of critical acclaim — including a “Best Film” nomination at Japan’s Academy Awards, they’d have probably laughed in your face. But […]

I never thought I’d see the day when First Things — the ecumenical journal founded by Richard John Neuhaus — would review a film by Takashi Miike, one of cinema’s great enfants terrible, but here you go: Ultra-violence, as A Clockwork Orange’s protagonist reminds us, is an art. Takashi Miike agrees, judging from his new remake of Eiichi […]