![]() ![]() Then I watched Vengeance Is Mine (1979), directed by Shōhei Imamura, and felt a shock completely different from watching any other film. Film school was ideal for lazy people there were no exams, and whoever applied was accepted. I thought, I don’t like either, so let’s delay the inevitable. When I graduated from high school, I had to choose between going to college or becoming a responsible member of society – in other words, a worker. “As a boy, I hated studying, so my grades were poor. ![]() “Compared to other directors I may be prolific, but it’s all relative. As a youngster he cut school to watch Bruce Lee films and dreamed of a career as a motorcycle racer he may not have fulfilled that ambition, but his love of speed is evidenced by his prodigious output – over a hundred films to date. Miike hails from a tough neighbourhood in the bustling port of Osaka. And yet his films Shield of Straw (2013) and Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011) were both nominated for the esteemed Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival while the latter was the first three-dimensional film to be nominated for the prize. Quentin Tarantino calls him “the godfather of ultra-violent, get-under-your-skin movies”. In person, this slim, stylish man is soft-spoken and unfailingly polite – something that can’t be said of his films. Takashi Miike is a study in contradictions. How has he elevated his singular brand of shocksploitation to auteur level? John Harris Dunning digs around the innards of his oeuvre to get to the heart of the matter Photography Daisuke Hamada The Japanese master of cinema – director of over a hundred films – has a significant international following of genre geeks and cineastes alike. ![]()
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