Few directors can transform the modern moviegoers into gawkers and jaw-droppers like Takashi Miike. In the old days the shadow of a knife was enough to get the audience anxious and scared. Nowadays we are not easily shocked, except for when we watch one of Takashi’s movies. The films have the kind of twisted horror that would have gotten the director imprisoned and banned back in Hitchcock's time. Lucky for us, we live in a different age where we can enjoy a good fright, brought to us by a genius mind.
Takashi is a very prolific director and not all of his films are considered horror (specially that Dead or Alive trilogy…) but nonetheless some of the most shocking and disturbing scenes in film history come from his cinematography vision. Here’s an interview from the BBC in which he talks about the motivation behind his most important film: Audition.
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