Tag: Takashi Miike
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When I wrote about Takashi Miike directing an episode of anime cat series Nyaight of the Living Cat in my Fantasia preview article, I had no idea what the show was about. I’ll be honest, I assumed it somehow mashed up the principal pieces of George A. Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead to…
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We are now less than a week away from the start of the twenty-ninth edition of one of the biggest film festivals on the planet, the Fantasia International Film Festival. This year, the festival begins with Ari Aster’s Eddington, concludes with Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, and is packed with over one hundred additional features to occupy…
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The Boston Underground Film Festival got underway on Wednesday night with a duo of big-screen beachside films that manage to evoke every manner of summer except the chilled vibes. Tensions ran high in the packed Brattle auditorium for The Surfer, which was a blast to watch with a crowd. The Surfer If you’re a fan…
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By the time most horror fans became aware of Takashi Miike with 1999’s horrifyingly disturbing Audition, he’d already directed 31 movies. Between that horror classic and his other, almost equally infamous Ichi the Killer, he’s got a reputation as being a J-Horror master although his extremely prolific filmography now totaling 122 movies, pretty much runs the gamut…