Tag: Takashi Miike
The Conversation: The Best of Cannes 2019
Zombies. The Undead. Reincarnation. These were some of the central themes and motifs displayed throughout an alarming amount of films in the 2019 official...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #77. Takashi Miike’s Laplace’s Witch
Laplace’s Witch
Any annual list wouldn’t be complete without a mention of Japan’s most prolific contemporary auteur, Takashi Miike, whose one-hundredth film Blade of the...
Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: Picks 200 to 101
As we unveil our first tier of two hundred notable foreign film projects to be potentially unveiled in 2017, the coming year promises to...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #76. Takashi Miike’s Terra Formars
Terra Formars
Director: Takashi Miike
Writer: Kazuki Nakashima
Given his mindboggling output, it would be strange not to have a most anticipated list not featuring Japanese auteur...
2015 TIFF: Soi Cheang, Takashi Miike, Sean Byrne & Jeremy Saulnier Bloody-up the Midnight Madness Programme
Hong Kong's Soi Cheang, Japan's Takashi Miike, Australia's Sean Byrne and American filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier are among the returning names to populate TIFF's Midnight...
The Happiness of the Katakuris | Blu-ray Review
Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris begins with a woman probing a freshly delivered bowl of soup only to fish out a miniature angel/gargoyle/teletubby? whose...
2015 Directors’ Fortnight: Saulnier’s Green Room & Bidegain’s Les Cowboys Among “Dope” Selections
Takashi Miike (Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War Of The Underworld), Fernando León de Aranoa (A Perfect Day starring Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, and Olga...
2014 TIFF: Fabrice Du Welz’s Alleluia & Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy Top Vanguard Programme
While a certain "freshness" might be lacking in the Midnight Madness programme, the Vanguard section (and Wavelengths to be unveiled next month) is where...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Shield of Straw | Cannes Review
Burnt Offerings: Miike’s Latest Can’t Quite Reach Satisfying Blaze
That audacious auteur of excess, Takashi Miike, unveils his latest offering, Shield of Straw to be...
Escalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Takashi Miike’s Straw Shield
#78. Takashi Miike's Straw Shield
Gist: Based on a novel by Kiuchi Kazuhiro, Straw Shield will follow Fujiwara, a ‘child killer,’ who’s been captured and...