Lumberjack the Monster review – an explosion of horror strangeness from a master of the art
Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this!
Stuart Heritage
November 2022
Martin Scorsese at 80: Francis Ford Coppola, Steve McQueen and Woody Allen on the ‘greatest director alive’
Ahead of his birthday next week, directors including Tim Burton, Edgar Wright, Lynne Ramsay and Luca Guadagnino reveal their favourite scenes – and what Scorsese’s work means to them
January 2021
The stage on screen
After Audition: Takashi Miike's rehearsal-room shocker Over Your Dead Body
Continuing our series on the best films about theatre, a 200-year-old Japanese ghost story takes centre stage in a movie merging reality and fantasy
February 2020
First Love review – a bloody slice of Tokyo pulp fiction
First Love review – brilliantly bizarre, ultra-violent yakuza caper
February 2019
Ranked
Top 20 J-horror films – ranked!
Japanese horror has always set the bar high when it comes to making your skin crawl. But which make even the hardened gorehounds wince?
March 2018
The Outsider review – Jared Leto joins the yakuza in crass Netflix thriller
An unconvincing crime tale from the streaming giant sees the Oscar winner in murky territory taking a shallow, tourist-friendly view of Japan
December 2017
Blade of the Immortal review – bloodshed and birdsong
Blade of the Immortal review – spectacular corpses and an undead samurai
November 2017
Film blog
100 not out: Takashi Miike joins the world's most prolific directors
The Japanese director is known in the west for ultraviolence and boundary-pushing gore, but he has honed his craft in genres including family films to reach this career landmark
May 2017
Blade of the Immortal review – Takashi Miike's samurai bloodbath shows signs of life
The veteran Japanese director’s 100th film concerns a warrior who is able to grow back his own limbs. It is undeniably gross, but also a lot of fun
May 2016
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Ran; Citizen Kane; Daddy’s Home; In the Heart of the Sea; Yakuza Apocalypse – review
Restored classics from Kurosawa and Orson Welles beat the competition hands down in a thin week
December 2015
Yakuza Apocalypse review – vampire gangsters go wild in freaky, wacky Takashi Miike mashup
Audition review – the stomach-turning birth of J-horror
May 2015
Yakuza Apocalypse review - berserk mess of a gangster-vampire hybrid
Japanese genre master Takashi Miike comes to Cannes with a yakuza-meets-vampires-meets-monsters movie; no wonder, perhaps, that it’s just a mish-mash
August 2013
Why I love ...
Why I love … the first five minutes of Dead or Alive
Adam Boult: Takashi Miike's Yakuza thriller opens with a barrage of sleaze featuring cocaine, stripping and guns. It's brilliant. Warning: contains explicit images
May 2012
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 3D – review
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai – review
May 2011
Takashi Miike: Why I am bringing Japanese classics back to life
Takashi Miike
Japanese director Takeshi Miike explains why he has returned to the chanbara samurai films of his youth in 13 Assassins
