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context: movies > directors
Takashi Miike, 1960-
Miike is one of the great cult figures of modern World cinema, and he has been unbelievably prolific - IMDB lists 75 films directed by him between 1991 and 2007. His films are unpredictable, wildly imaginative, reckless, and hugely uneven, but at his best he is outrageously exciting. He can also be very hard to watch - I actually flinched and covered my eyes during the final scenes in Audition, for instance, which misleads the audience by appearing to be a gentle romcom for some time, before becoming brutally horrific. He also regularly insists that we realise we are watching a film, which takes us back to the Japanese inclination towards presentation rather than representation.