Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins has stood out as a high point in the samurai genre. It was a worldwide success, and even earned comparisons to the works of genre mastermind Akira Kurosawa. Critics lauded ...

13 Assassins is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike. This movie serves as a remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 Japanese period drama film of the same name. Set in 1844 toward the conclusion of the ...

Although he's done a bit of everything at this point (that's what happens when you churn out an average of four movies per year), the name Takashi Miike is still associated with a few specific things ...

Takashi Miike has the game in a chokehold. The Japanese auteur, who’s deservedly praised as a genre film king thanks to brain-fucking titles like Ichi the Killer and Audition, is back with 13 ...