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Takashi Miike Biography

Takashi Miike (三池崇史, Miike Takashi, born August 24, 1960) is a Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly.

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I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

Character, Fan, Goal, Important, Make

At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him.

Moments, Same, Sex, Want

Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

Dream, Enact, Movie, Real, Revenge, Secret

You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.

Thinking, Ideas, Helping, Helps, Somebody, Idea

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.

Believe, Directors, Film, Films, Lifestyle

I try to take interest in whatever comes my way. Another aspect of this is [that] if at the beginning it seems like something I don't want to do, I ask myself why I don't want to do this and why I feel this way. It's perhaps rooted in the fact that I'm trying to avoid something.

Fact, Perhaps, Trying, Want, Way

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

Way, Enjoy, Filmmaking, Movies, Making

I don't make rules myself. I didn't study enough to be able to make them. I'm too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight and difficult schedule, it was always enjoyable. Of course I wonder if the film will be successful afterwards. It's wonderful if a film becomes successful as a result of the enjoyment that we had

Able, Difficult, Life, Stupid, Successful, Whole

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a world outside Japan too. For me, it's an occasion to meet many people and to experience directly the response of international audiences to my films. But for me as a director, my attitude towards making films hasn't changed with the fame. I feel it's not good to change as a person anyway

Attitude, Change, Director, Experience, Japan, People

I don't think about the audience, I don't think about what makes them happy, because there's no way for me to know. To try to think of what makes for entertainment is a very Japanese thing. The people who think like this are old-fashioned. They think of the audience as a mass, but in fact every person in the audience is different. So entertainment for everyone doesn't exist

Audience, Entertainment, People, Think, Thinking, Trying

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

Real, Trying, Different, Screen, Naturally

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

People, Trying, Want, Restrictions, Ways, Create

I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.

Beginner, Beginners, Long, Surround, Trying, Younger

On the times when I used to make movies that were with a lower budget, nobody was expecting it to be a hit, and nobody was paying attention to what I was doing, and it was a free type of creative process. So, one way to reset myself is to go back to that kind of moviemaking.

Attention, Creative, Times, Way

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

Childhood, Generations, Our Children, Thing, Greatly, Influenced

In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.

Break, Crazy, Drama, Naturalism, Reality

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.

Controversial, Crazy, Extremely, Film, Japan, Violent Films

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.

Completely, Directors, Done, Ends, Pretty, Sort

I go to the dentist, not a shrink.

Dentist, Shrink, Shrinks

For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.

Energy, Japan, Making, Movie, Terms, Trying

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