Director: Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike – Japanese director (b 1960- ). Miike has become regarded as a cult director. Miike made a name for himself in the early 2000s with films like Audition (1999), Ichi the Killer (2001) and Visitor Q (2001) that were celebrated by audiences because of the ultra-violent and taboo-defying extremes he pushed the material. His work vies between yakuza films, teen dramas and genre works (listed below).

Miike has been prolific since the early 1990s, putting out 3-4 films per year, sometimes twice that, although this seems to have slowed down after 2020. His films from the late 2000s onwards become much experimental and frequently eccentric in nature.