Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike is a Japanese filmmaker whose work ranges across horror, crime, comedy, fantasy and historical action. Born in Osaka in 1960, he trained in Yokohama and worked under directors including Shohei Imamura before making his own films in the early 1990s.

Audition brought him international attention, followed by films including Ichi the Killer and One Missed Call during the wider circulation of Japanese horror. His range also encompasses the superhero comedy Zebraman and samurai films Thirteen Assassins and Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai. Abrupt changes of tone, tenderness and extreme violence recur across an unusually varied body of work.