Takashi Miike on First Love
Takashi Miike’s latest feature First Love concerns amateur boxer Leo (Masataka Kubota) and call girl Monica (Sakurako Konishi) who accidentally get mixed up in a...
First Love (Japan, 2019) [TIFF 2019]
Not just a regular selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, but also a fixture of the festival’s frequently ballistic Midnight Madness program, Takashi Miike...
Lesson of Evil (Japan, 2012)
A serial killer is posing as a teacher at a school, and is obsessed with observing his colleagues and students in their classes and extra-curricular...
Over Your Dead Body (Japan, 2014)
As a new stage production of Tsuruya Nanboku’s classic kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan (Ghost Story of Yotsuya) is working through its rehearsal process, its two...
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Japan, 2014) [Japan Cuts/NYAFF 2014]
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is the latest offering from Japan’s enfant terrible director Takashi Miike . Co-presented by the New York Asian Film...
JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema, July 10-20, 2014
The eighth edition of JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema will run from July 10th to 20th, 2014. Twenty-seven titles will...
Audition (Japan, 1999)
It could be argued that Audition is a film that does not require any introduction, although such a statement refers to the undeniably intense climax...