Takashi Miike

Birthday: August 24, 1960

A contemporary of such noted film experimentalists as Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man [1989]), maverick Japanese workhorse director Takashi Miike became one of the most talked about filmmakers in the international festival circuit after taking audiences on kinetically unhinged and frequently disturbing joyrides as Dead or Alive (2000) and Ichi the Killer (2001). Despite the ...more