Currently Browsing: "Takashi Miike"

If there is any kind of common thread in the work of Takashi Miike, it would have to be that they are all either just a little or, in some cases, immensely loony. Enter Yatterman, a superhero’s tale…

Takashi Miike is making a samurai film. Will it suck like Sukiyaki Western Django… or like the breast-fed family in Visitor Q?

Foreign Objects travels the world of international cinema each week to highlight films worth visiting. So renew your passport, get your shots, and brush up on the local age of legal consent, this week we’re heading to… Japan!

Westerns are a uniquely American type of film, are they not? So why, with that in mind, would two Asian filmmakers both go into the western shoot-em-up business at the exact same time? We explore the facts.