Tag: miike
Now on Blu-ray: Miike's BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL Shreds in HD
Miike Takashi turns 100(ish) with his latest full length feature, the adaptation of hugely popular manga Blade of the Immortal. The film stars Kimura Takuya as Manji, a swordsman cursed with immortality whose only way out of his hell of...
TERRA FORMARS: Full Trailer For Miike's Violent SciFi Picture Suggests Maybe We Should Just Stay Where We Are
After a long build up the full trailer for Miike Takashi's big screen adaptation of popular manga and anime series Terra Formars has arrived with our first significant look at the scope of the world and the action at hand....
Miike, Saulnier and Van Dormael Anchor Directors' Fortnight Selections
There's a fuzzy green frog headed for Cannes with word that Miike Takashi's Yakuza Apocalypse - poster art featured above - is headed to the massive French fest as part of the official Directors' Fortnight selection along with Jeremy Saulnier's...
Miike's YAKUZA APOCALYPSE Poster Arrives Bearing ... Frog?
Miike Takashi has long stated that his goal with upcoming effort Yakuza Apocalypse was to get back to the gonzo efforts of his earlier years. And, yup ... this new theatrical poster is going to arch a few eyebrows, that's...
Even By Miike Standards, This Is Just Weird. Check The Full Trailer For AS THE GODS WILL
The are exploding heads o'plenty in the full trailer for Miike Takashi's adaptation of popular manga As The Gods Will. Heads exploding into piles of beads, apparently, all of it presided over by a mocking sculpture. Then there's the guy...
Toronto 2014 Review: Miike's OVER YOUR DEAD BODY Fuses Both Sides Of The Maverick Director Into A Stunning Whole
Through his early years Japanese cult auteur Miike Takashi built himself a very well earned reputation as a sort of patron saint of the id, the feverish imaginings of his subconscious spilling out in wild and unpredictable gusts of blood,...
First Teaser For Miike's Bloody Manga Adaptation AS GOD SAYS
What does God say?If you're Japanese cult auteur Miike Takashi evidently he says "Lay on the blood!" And ever the diligent sort, that's exactly what Miike is doing with his live action adaptation of Kanshiro Muneyuki and Fujimura Akeji's manga...
OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Watch The Blood Soaked Full Trailer For Miike's Latest
After a lengthy foray into more mainstream fare, Japan's premiere cinematic bad boy is back into the horror genre where he made his name in a big way. Yes, Miike Takashi has laid on more of the red stuff with...
Watch The Full Trailer For Toyoda's CROWS EXPLODE!
Continuing the series of Japanese teen gang films launched to massive popularity by Miike Takashi with his Crows Zero films, Blue Spring and Nine Souls helmer Toyoda Toshiaki steps to the controls for Crows Explode. Set in the same school...
Miike's Getting Bloody Again With Manga Adaptation AS GOD SAYS
[Hey, look! We already wrote about this!]Japanese director Miike Takashi will be laying on the red stuff once again with Variety reporting that he has signed on to direct an adaptation of Kanshiro Muneyuki's manga As God Says (Kamisama no...
THE MOLE SONG: Full Trailer For Miike's Latest Brings The Madness
Here comes the crazy. Maverick director Miike Takashi is going brash, colorful and bold with his big screen adaptation of Takahashi Noburo's manga Moguro No Uta. Selected as part of the Rome film festival - where it plays under the...
Miike's Tom Hardy Starring THE OUTSIDER Locks Finance, To Shoot In Early 2014
It's on.Twitch brought word back in June that Tom Hardy had signed on to star in English language feature The Outsider for director Miike Takashi and now word has come down that the picture has locked finance and is expected...
Watch The First Teaser For Miike's MOGURO NO UTA
Miike's getting weird again. After a run of big and comparatively safe studio productions, Miike Takashi got bloody again last year with the release of Lesson Of The Evil and he's following that up now with an adaptation of Takahashi...
New To Netflix: Thrillers! Horror! Samurai! Docs!
Back from a week's hiatus, and there are plenty of new goodies in the Netflix cookie jar. This week we've added coverage for The Netherlands, along with the usual territories of Canada, The United States, Mexico, Brazil, The United Kingdom,...
Miike Reunites With HARA-KIRI Star For Ghost Tale
Though Miike Takashi's remake of Hara-Kiri failed to set critics or fan afire - though it is not without its fans - the director is clearly a fan of that film's leading man, kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo as it has...
Gang Fights Continue At Suzuran High In CROWS EXPLODE's First Trailer
Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 are two of Japanese director Miike Takashi's most popular films. These high school gangster flicks are violent, entertaining and filled with energy and intensity. With the box office success of both films, it comes...
