Anyone here familiar with Takashi Miike

[Arkitech]

His movies sound interesting, anyone care to comment...

I've never watched this guy's movies before but he sounds like an interesting film director in a perverse kind of way. Here are a few links to some of his films, if anyone has seen his stuff post your thoughts.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0296042/

Ichi The Killer

Yakuza Demon


Audition

 

[Arkitech]

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[xospec1alk]

of his movies, i've seen audition, visitor q, and dead or alive...

audition was great, visitor q was just ok...dead or alive was just bad

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk
of his movies, i've seen audition, visitor q, and dead or alive...

audition was great, visitor q was just ok...dead or alive was just bad

I've heard he has a reputation for really bloody movies, how do they compare to say Tarantino films?

 

[sygyzy]

Who *isn't* familiar with him? Or at least his works or influence.

 

[xospec1alk]

i've heard that as well, but the ones i've seen...meh...not so bloody...

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Who *isn't* familiar with him? Or at least his works or influence.

one would expect more replies in a thread about him then wouldn't they?

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Who *isn't* familiar with him? Or at least his works or influence.

one would expect more replies in a thread about him then wouldn't they?

I think he's a little slow, he'll eventually reach the right conclusion sometime later today

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Who *isn't* familiar with him? Or at least his works or influence.

one would expect more replies in a thread about him then wouldn't they?

I think he's a little slow, he'll eventually reach the right conclusion sometime later today

 

[Hammerhead]

Yeah he makes a great smelling cologne

 

[MrDingleDangle]

audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be OldBoy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be Old Boy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

yea, but the torture scene in Audition was effing rough! i had nightmares of that girl giggling and smiling...

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be Old Boy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

yea, but the torture scene in Audition was effing rough! i had nightmares of that girl giggling and smiling...

i agree, the torture scene is really crazy and the movie is really crazy, i just didnt think he did a good job of putting it all together and therefor the movie as a whole suffered

one of the better torture scenes though

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be OldBoy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

Save the Green planet was pretty wicked. the guy from save the green...was also in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the 'prequel' to oldboy

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be OldBoy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

Save the Green planet was pretty wicked. the guy from save the green...was also in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the 'prequel' to oldboy

yeah i just got that from netflix, it will be watched sometime very soon

here is the trailer for Save the Green Planet!- http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/save_the_green_planet.html

how can u beat that trailer?

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle

Originally posted by: xospec1alk

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
audition I was really dissappointed with...it was really good but then it turned out the entire movie was setting up 1 torture scene and i felt very dissappointed by the ending...it was like he decided to have a torture scene and built the movie around it...i forget the specifics, but i know i was very dissappointed with the last 15 min to half an hour, before that it was really good

ichii the killer i heard a lot about and was crazy, but at times it was too crazy for me to know what was going on

edit: better movies if u havent seen them would be OldBoy (korean), or Memoirs of a Murder (also korean), or Battle Royale

almost forgot, i would also recommend Save the Green Planet! ...but u might want to turn it off 5 minutes early...it has the perfect ending, then has a second, not so good ending

Save the Green planet was pretty wicked. the guy from save the green...was also in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the 'prequel' to oldboy

yeah i just got that from netflix, it will be watched sometime very soon

here is the trailer for Save the Green Planet!- http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/save_the_green_planet.html

how can u beat that trailer?

I gotta agree that movie looks dope as hell, just added it to my netflix que

 

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[EvilYoda]

Those three movies are kiddie-fare compared to Miike's work, for the most part...Saw wasn't bad though. Miike also has a segment in "Three Extremes", which my local Blockbuster shockingly stocked 5 copies of, so it should be easily accessible to US people.

I took my friends to Ichi when a local theater had it on the big screen for a midnight showing...that was amusing