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Takashi Miike

(1960) Film Director

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Takashi Miike is a film director.

Quick Facts About Takashi Miike

Born: August 24, 1960
Profession: Film Director

About Takashi Miike

[Wikidata] Japanese film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor... | [Wikipedia] Takashi Miike is a Japanese filmmaker and actor. He has directed over 100 films and television productions, in a variety of genres such as action, children's films, comedy, drama, horror, musicals, and jidaigeki period dramas.

Quotes by Takashi Miike

Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to…

Can do

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You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with…

Bad

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When you try to be true to the script, changes occur. A script is there to show us a certain direction. But…

Actors

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Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone's toes; in some ways that's unnatural and stressful. The…

Generation

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I don't think I'll ever get tired of making films. I wish I could make so many that it would make me…

Cinema

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When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without…

End

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We have this desire for that balance between death and life or death and joy. We want to believe that something we…

Balance

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Boxing is a metaphor for hitting back and showing you can win in life.

Back

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You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind…

Deep inside

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When I'm watching one of my movies in a festival with fans who are just into it and they love it? I…

Cinema

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For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme…

Budget

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Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before.

Being

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More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

Being

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The people who like my work, I know that I can't trick them into laughing someplace where there is not a genuine…

Genuine

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As a film-maker, it's only natural to feel happy about new possibilities opening up.

Cinema

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I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get…

Approach

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There are fragments of me in all my characters.

Character

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Originally, I was an assistant director. For many people in that role, becoming a director is the ultimate goal. But, in my…

Director

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You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we…

Day

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The position of an assistant director in Japan is a handyman who does everything if necessary. They must overcome the unreasonable demands…

Different person

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I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and…

Art

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Pleasure can also be a mirror of the anxiety we feel in everyday life, it can have a message inside.

Day life

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I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind…

Alone

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I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point.…

Anything

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You could not imitate Fellini. His beauty was above anything else, but that intelligence was typically Italian. This helped me to realise…

Beauty

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Takashi Miike by topic

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