― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 15 November 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 15 November 2002 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 November 2002 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Honda (Honda), Friday, 15 November 2002 20:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― daria g, Friday, 15 November 2002 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 15 November 2002 20:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ichi made me feel really gross, but I'm still glad I saw it. Actually, I have the feeling this can be said for most of his films. I still haven't seen Audition though...
(The soundtrack to Ichi is also good.)
― ^Diego^ (dhadis), Friday, 15 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Saturday, 16 November 2002 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 17 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 17 November 2002 18:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 17 November 2002 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
how were the other films you've seen so far martin?
― bob zemko (bob), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've enjoyed 7 out of 8 (the other was my girlfriend's choice, an okay Argentine flick), mostly Oriental films, which is my big specialist interest. The two I've looked forward to most are tomorrow and Tuesday, A Chinese Odyssey (which sounds utterly crazed) and Lilya-4-Ever, the new Lukas Moodysson.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 18 November 2002 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
ha my girlf wants me to come see polissons et galipettes, that old porn one. she's paying, natch
don't suppose you saw russian ark?
― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 18 November 2002 01:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
yes. got to see all of them.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 18 November 2002 13:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
just saw the first DoA. my favorite so far in the line of Miike's more over-the-top ultraviolent manga films (Ichi, Fudoh, etc). haven't had this kind of fun since the first time i saw "Fist of the North Star" as a young teen. i want to see the sequels now but have no idea how to find them....
― Honda (Honda), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love that series (the movie was terrible tho').
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zemko (bob), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael B, Monday, 20 October 2003 08:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:08 (twenty years ago) link
Takashi Miike is obviously a director with huge amounts of energy and innovative thoughts, but he seems to have trouble controlling that energy to make coherent, flawless movies. The more of of his films I see, the more I begin to suspect he'll never something as good as Audition, the one film of his which is coherent from the beginning to the very end.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
Diego OTM (as per usual).
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link
Is it worth struggling through the last 1:40 if I'm already squicked?
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 16 January 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martha Stewart and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Sunday, 16 January 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 16 January 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
its rad btw
re: miike, ive onyl seen happiness of the katakiris and it was off the chain, the zombie dancing is awesome. dont want to watch audition and ichi etc cos i am a wimp
― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 16 January 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Nope. The film is kinda formless, and there aren't that many funnily macabre scenes, even less than in Visitor Q. Audition and Happiness of the Katakuris are the only ones of his films I'd recommend wholeheartedly (see myst post uphtread). Dead or Alive is worth seeing too, I guess, if only for what is one of the most jaw-dropping endings in the history of cinema.
It sorta feels like Miike is a victim of the fanboy syndrome; he's talented, sure, but he just keeps on feeding his core audience hungry for gore and shock values. There's nothing wrong with blood and the macabre per se, obviously (Audition proves he can make a good film using them), but in films like Ichi there's nothing more.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 January 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
SO THERE.
― sugarpants (sugarpants), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago) link
is there going to be a BFI short book about it? can anybody direct me to any good writing about the film?
which of the gangster movies should i watch next, "graveyard of honor" or "dead or alive"?
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 9 April 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"Dead or Alive" is pretty fun, haven't seen any of the sequels.
― sugarpants: bea arthur's secret lover (sugarpants), Saturday, 9 April 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The next person who says Miike is a genius must sit through all the "Young Thugs" films.
― Z-Freak, Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 April 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mil (Mil), Saturday, 9 April 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
And who the heck's saying that Visitor Q isn't a comedy until the final 3rd? It's a comedy the minute Q whacks Dad w/ a brick!
― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 10 April 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 10 April 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 10 April 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 10 April 2005 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 10 April 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 10 April 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I like gozu a bunch. been on a mini miike kick and I re-watched it the other day. definitely overlong but lots of memorable scenes... esp that ending! @__@
audition, gozu, and doa 2 are my faves from what I've seen. ichii didn't do much for me and imprint was too rough for me to handle.
― original bgm, Thursday, 24 June 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i started gozu but was distracted at the time so i stopped, def intend to go back to it soon.
― AESTHOLE (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 June 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
watched audition for the first time now. first 2/3 are neat, last 1/3 is gratuitous, huh?
― once a remy bean always a (remy bean), Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
gratuitously awesome
― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
dialogue during torture scene is great, love asami's philosophy lessons
― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the last third is so effective because of the stark difference!
― Nhex, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― toastmodernist, Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
He's coming to NYC for his Lincoln Center retro.
http://subwaycinemanews.com/archives/1581
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 February 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Yokai war is either batshit awesome or batshit awful and honestly I kinda flip back and forth every time I see it
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 26 February 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
13 Assassins was really something.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Friday, 29 April 2011 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
In a good way?
― the crap gig in the sky (MaresNest), Friday, 29 April 2011 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Definitely. Strictly for the ultraviolence crowd though.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Friday, 29 April 2011 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Brilliant, I'm there.
― the crap gig in the sky (MaresNest), Friday, 29 April 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the better remakes I've seen. tremendous.
― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 30 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSJxRbrvmUM
― more horses after the main event (Eazy), Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
13 Assassins was pretty great. Not ground-breaking in any way, but just a lot of fun, pretty self-aware of samurai movie tropes, with a dash of really out-of-place Miike ultraviolence extremities. I love how the final battle more or less drops the pretense of realism that the movie had been following for the most part. A wonderful slow burn build up to that phenomenal set piece.
It was really strange how in parts it was remarkably restrained in its graphic violence (i.e. the opening harakiri, though just the sound effects might have been even worse!), the surprising lack of arterial blood spray - I'm guessing in reverence to its sources, and yet other times it was totally over-the-top (that woman early in the film).
― Nhex, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
dying to see this on a big screen
― banter panchali (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
i think i enjoyed the build up more than the battle itself. especially the part with 'that woman'
― + +, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link
13 asses was kewl - has pretty much everything you'd want from a bloody samurai flick. i didnt think the build up was that great - lots of scenes of stern men going 'nng!' and 'hmm!' while talking about duty and honor - but at the same time it was just right for the payoff you get (the battle). the japanese version is longer but it's mostly just draggy exposition from what i understand and not miike craziness - stick with the intl vers
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
I like some of some of them.
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
the japanese version is longer but it's mostly just draggy exposition from what i understand and not miike craziness - stick with the intl vers
Interesting...obviously it's a great action film but few of the characters were developed satisfactorily (about half of the assassins were 100% interchangeable/disposable), which detracted from its emotional impact for me.
Thought the opening shot was extremely effective (those sound effects!!!).
― Fear Moldova and the Nation of Leaners (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i honestly could only remember Shinzaemon's name and the rest were just 'types' - probably the biggest thing holding the movie back from being really great.
one weird thing i noticed was that upashi was played by the same actress who played the wife of the nephew samurai... and only he and the mysterious immortal hunter survived hmmmm
― ( . __ . ) . o O ( cum ) (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to mention that but thought it might count as a spoiler...assuming it's intentional I can't think of any explanation that isn't totally wtf and nonsensical in the context of the rest of the film.
― Fear Moldova and the Nation of Leaners (seandalai), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i didn't understand what was going on there
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
I am stupidly excited about the Phoenix Wright movie he's supposedly working on.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
i saw "gozu" recently. amazing demented film. id forgotten about this guy in the last few years but film 4 have shown a couple of his movies this week. i have "13 assasins" dvr'd as well so im looking forward to seeing that.
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
exploring some obscurities (96 films!)
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/kaiju-shakedown-takashi-miike
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
i used to dismiss this guy but i don't think he's dismissable (miike that is)
96 films!
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL was pretty awesome. Warning - super long, overstuffed, and gratuitous, and that's just I wanted to see.
― Nhex, Saturday, 4 November 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
watching Blade of the Immortal
man and I thought I loved 13 Assassins. This one is even more ott but with an added layer of grotesque fairytale, i am loving it.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 December 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
better than 13 Assassins?
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/499/679/770.gif
― omar little, Sunday, 24 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
maaaaybe? i’m not sure yeteasily on par tho
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 December 2017 04:08 (six years ago) link
it’s like 13 Assassins but at operatic levels.Blade is more complicated & emotional, which i love, but god the simplicity of 13 Assassins was so good it’s hard to beat it. it’s hard to fault either film on their own merits though. i’m still reeeling from this. the hurt-fight scene chroeography is sooooo crazy-good & the acting is so convincing. and the music! . and the revenge triangle climax is so fkn beautiful & desolate ugh. love!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 24 December 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link
^^Just noticed this was on Netflix! it's as tremendously fun, OTT and gory as you'd expect. also appreciated the ridiculous anime fashion/hairstyles (shout out to lady assassin in bright purple yukata and platform sandals) being translated into live action.
― Roz, Sunday, 21 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
Is it a different cut to the UK dvd because that was a 15 and you could see how some shots had been cut early?
― koogs, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
(oh, are you talking blade... Or 13 assassins? I'm talking 13 assassins)
― koogs, Sunday, 21 January 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
Was talking about blade, yeah
― Roz, Friday, 26 January 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
My bf was like "hey look Ichi The Killer is getting a re-release" and I said "you like Takeshi Miike?" and he said "I haven't seen any of his films" and I said "omg don't read ANYTHING about Audition, you just have to walk into it cold". That same evening we ordered in food and I turned on Audition and he got really angry when it was over, he said "you're a fucking jerk" and I said "why? you didn't like the movie?" and he said "no, I feel like you're an older kid who is bullying me at school, you do this all the time" and then I spoke the next day with my therapist about larger personality-defects in myself (tendencies toward smugness and sanctimony)
Anyway I'm gonna show him Blade Of The Immortal tonight
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 26 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
Kudos, that's a story
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 January 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
hahaha, i love that storyi kind of have to agree with your BF though as much as I love Audition
― Nhex, Friday, 26 January 2018 05:29 (six years ago) link
Yakuza Apocalypse man
A little long but as nuts as you can hope for.
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 21 December 2018 07:15 (five years ago) link
But you could almost make a normal person watch it!
watched Dead or Alive yesterday. i stood in my living room and applauded upon its conclusion.
― andrew m., Monday, 1 July 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
I don't think it ever tops the long opening sequence.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 1 July 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-dyjACbB0
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
https://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/nyc/film/first-loveMonday NYC Q&A with Miike
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
maybe it's sold out because the 7:10 show doesn't appear for monday or tuesday
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 September 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
whoops, that was weeks ago. mb!
Forty minutes into Blade of the Immortal I am intrigued but hope I don’t fall asleep.
― Meet Me in the Z'Ha'Dum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:48 (one year ago) link
i dont think you will imo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link