List of the best Takashi Miike movies: 13 Assassins(2010), Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai(2011), Audition(1999), Dead or Alive 2: Birds(2000), Blade of the Immortal(2017), Dead or Alive(1999), Shinjuku Triad Society(1995), Lesson of the Evil(2012), As the Gods Will(2014), One Missed Call(2004), Izo(2004), Dead or Alive: Final(2002) ... ...
Action, Drama, Adventure, History
Japan|UK
2010
126 Minutes
Director
Koji Yakusho Takayuki Yamada Yusuke Iseya Goro Inagaki Mikijir? Hira Hiroki Matsukata Ikki Sawamura Arata Furuta Tsuyoshi Ihara Sosuke Takaoka Masachika Ichimura
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A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Drama, History
Japan|UK
2011
126 Minutes
Director
Ebizô Ichikawa Eita Hikari Mitsushima Naoto Takenaka Munetaka Aoki Hirofumi Arai Kazuki Namioka Yoshihisa Amano Takehiro Hira Ippei Takahashi Koji Yakusho
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A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Horror
Japan
1999
113 Minutes
Director
Ryo Ishibashi Eihi Shiina Tetsu Sawaki Jun Kunimura Renji Ishibashi Miyuki Matsuda Toshie Neghisi Ren Ôsugi Sigeru Saiki Ken Mitsuishi Yuriko Hirooka
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A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Action
Japan
2000
97 Minutes
Director
Riki Takeuchi Kenichi Endo Shô Aikawa Edison Chen Shin'ya Tsukamoto Ren Ôsugi Toru Tezuka Masato Teah
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends.
Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Japan|UK|South Korea
2017
151 Minutes
Director
Takuya Kimura Hana Sugisaki Sôta Fukushi Hayato Ichihara Erika Toda Kazuki Kitamura Chiaki Kuriyama Shinnosuke Mitsushima Yoko Yamamoto Ebizô Ichikawa Min Tanaka
Cursed with a life of immortality, a samurai is tasked by a young girl to help avenge the death of her father. Based on the manga series by Hiroaki Samura.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Japan
1999
104 Minutes
Director
Riki Takeuchi Shô Aikawa Renji Ishibashi Hitoshi Ozawa Kaoru Sugita Duncan Hirotaro Honda Susumu Terajima Michisuke Kashiwaya Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi Tomorowo Taguchi
A yakuza of Chinese descent and a Japanese cop each wage their own war against the Japanese mafia. But they are destined to meet. Their encounter will change the world.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Japan
1995
100 Minutes
Director
Takeshi Caesar Ren Ôsugi Kippei Shiina Tomorowo Taguchi
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Mystery & Thriller
Japan
2012
129 Minutes
Director
Takayuki Yamada Hideaki Ito Shôta Sometani Fumi Nikaidô Rio Kanno Kento Hayashi Erina Mizuno Kôdai Asaka Yukino Kishii Jodi Lynn Smith
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A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Sci-Fi, Horror
Japan
2014
117 Minutes
Director
Shôta Sometani Ryunosuke Kamiki Lily Franky Sôta Fukushi Nao Ômori Hirona Yamazaki Mio Yûki
A group of high school students are forced to play a game of death without knowing who, why or how.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Japan
2004
111 Minutes
Director
Kou Shibasaki Kazue Fukiishi Shinichi Tsutsumi Anna Nagata Atsushi Ida Mariko Tsutsui Kumiko Imai Keiko Tomita
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People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, foretelling their deaths.
Fantasy, Action
Japan
2004
128 Minutes
Director
Kazuya Nakayama Kaori Momoi Ryôsuke Miki
An executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
Japan
2002
88 Minutes
Director
Riki Takeuchi Shô Aikawa Terence Yin Josie Ho Maria Chen Ken Lo Tony Ho Jason Chu Rachel Ngan
The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.
Horror, Action
Japan|France
2015
115 Minutes
Director
Yayan Ruhian Rirî Furankî Tetsu Watanabe Mio Yûki Hayato Ichihara Denden Pierre Taki Yoshiyuki Morishita
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In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among... See full summary »
Comedy, Action
2009
119 Minutes
Director
Shô Sakurai Sadao Abe Kyôko Fukada Ayumu Saitô Saki Fukuda Shingo Ippongi Kendô Kobayashi Katsuhisa Namase Anri Okamoto
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2012
135 Minutes
Director
Takumi Saito Makoto Ayukawa Shunsuke Daitô Rei Dan Akira Emoto Takehiro Hira Ryo Ishibashi Fumiyo Kohinata Yuko Nakamura Hiroki Narimiya Mitsuki Tanimura
Phoenix Wright, a novice lawyer, defends clients against more-experienced lawyers and the best prosecutor of all time.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1999
105 Minutes
Director
Kazuki Kitamura Tomorowo Taguchi Dan Li Shô Aikawa Naoto Takenaka Samuel Pop Aning
Horror
2014
94 Minutes
Director
Ebizô Ichikawa Kou Shibasaki Hideaki Ito Hitomi Katayama Maiko Toshie Negishi Miho Nakanishi Hiroshi Katsuno
Fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizô Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
Horror
2005
125 Minutes
Director
Byung-hun Lee Park Chan-wook Hye-jeong Kang Jung-ah Yum Mitsuru Akaboshi Bai Ling Kyoko Hasegawa Pauline Lau Tony Leung Won-hie Lim
Stories revolve around a witch doctor, a filmmaker (Byung-hun Lee) and a resentful extra, and a novelist and her twin sister.
Crime, Drama, Comedy
2019
108 Minutes
Director
Masataka Kubota Nao Ômori Shôta Sometani Jun Murakami Sansei Shiomi Seiyô Uchino
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One night in Tokyo, a self-confident young boxer and a prostitute get caught up in a drug-smuggling plot involving organized crime, corrupt cops and a female assassin.
Crime, Drama
2001
128 Minutes
Director
Tadanobu Asano Nao Ômori Shin'ya Tsukamoto Alien Sun Hiroyuki Tanaka
A bloodthirsty hoodlum (Tadanobu Asano) sparks a series of violent reprisals after his boss is apparently taken by a mysterious assassin (Nao Ômori).