Prison Gambler

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. (Source: Letterboxd)

Kanno Miho

In 1992, Kanno made her debut as a member of a group called Sakurakko Kurabu Sakura Gumi (trans. Sakurakko Club Sakura Group) after passing the orientation for the TV variety show Sakurakko Kurabu. As a member of the Sakura Gumi, she started to participate actively from the group's second single DO-shite…

Koizumi Kyoko

Koizumi Kyoko is a Japanese singer and actress.

Esumi Eimei

Esumi Eimei was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He died of stomach cancer on August 22, 2004, at the age of 68. (Source: Wikipedia)

Riju Go

Riju Go is a Japanese film director and actor. Riju started making 8mm films in high school, and his Kyokun I earned a spot at the 1980 Pia Film Festival. In 1981, he made his acting debut with a starring role in the TBS drama Fubo no gosan. The same year, he participated in the production of Kihachi…

Tanaka Tetsushi

Tanaka Tetsushi is a Japanese actor from Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture. After graduating from Kaisei High School in 1984, he immediately moved to Tokyo and went on to a vocational school for acoustics, but he quit after a year. He then went to the Department of Theater at Nihon University College of Art…

Mashima Hidekazu

Hidekazu Mashima was born in Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan. He started getting interested in films because of the influence of friends when he studied law at Kokushikan University in Tokyo. He took acting classes and received the offer of a leading role in Lee Sang Il's graduation project, "Chong" (2000).…

Miike Takashi

Miike Takashi is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over ninety theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions in the years 2001 and 2002 alone. His films range from violent and bizarre…

Ichi the Killer

7.1

Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with three hundred million yen. His loyal gang members, led by the masochist Kakihara, start a search, but their aggressive and gory methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakihara's most…

Uno Koji

He was born on April 21 , 1924 in Fukuoka Prefecture Omuta born in Fukuoka Prefectural Miike Junior High School (now Fukuoka Prefectural Miike high school), 1944 (Showa 19) he graduated from the Japan film school. In the same year, he was dispatched to the acting section of Toho Photo Studio. After…

Daisan no Gokudo

First instalment of the Gangster trilogy directed by Takashi Miike

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…

Ayano Go

Go Ayano is a Japanese actor born in Gifu, Japan. Ayano was featured in several minor roles beginning in 2005. In 2009, he appeared in Takashi Miike's "Crows Zero 2". He then appeared in Shun Oguri's directorial debut, "Surely Someday" (2010). In 2013, Ayano starred in two of his highest-profile roles…

Omori Nao

Nao Omori is a Japanese actor, with his most notable role as Ichi in Ichi the Killer directed by Takashi Miike. He is the son of Japanese actor Akaji Maro. Nao is sometimes credited under the name Nao Ohmori. He was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2004 Yokohama Film Festival. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Guys From Paradise

7.2

Allegedly based on a number of true cases, The Guys From Paradise is a prison story set in the Phillipines against a background of corruption, drug trafficking and paedophilia. This being a Takashi Miike film however,…

Basic Tsukamoto

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished…

Ichi 1: Origin

6.0

Ichi, a timid high school student on the verge of unleashing his inner assassin. ~~ A prequel to Miike’s 2001 film “Ichi the Killer” and is based on a manga by Hideo Yamamoto.

Agitator

7.1

A young, rowdy yakuza winds up dead after taking too many liberties at a rival gang’s night club. This leads to an escalation of violence which results in the death of a boss. His underling and close friend Kenzaki…

Sono Shukan, Boku wa Nakitaku Natta -Cinema Fighters Project-

7.3

This is the third instalment of the short film series, Cinema Fighters by LDH films, released in 2019. This time with five new stories, inspired by songs of other LDH Management talents. > "Beautiful" (Director: Takashi…

The Bird People in China

7.4

The story tells of a Japanese businessman, who is sent to assess some gems in a remote Chinese village, and a member of the yakuza, who is accompanying him to make sure his organization gets its proper share. The scenery…