To put it simply there's no other director like Takashi Miike in the entire world. I lament not putting one of his movies on my list of classic Japanese films not directed by Akira Kurosawa. Yet with the director’s earliest film being 1991’s Lady Hunter: Prelude to Murder, I don’t think that would have fit on a list with highly-regarded, esteemed films like Tokyo Story or Ugetsu. But you know what? Maybe he did belong on that list, because I also included samurai epics like Harakiri (which is one of the best samurai movies of all time) as well The Sword of Doom. And Miike, who has dabbled quite frequently in the realm of samurai flicks (as you’ll see on this list), has made some of the most legendary chambara films in recent memory.
So with the recent Onimusha series now on Netflix, which Takashi Miike is the chief director of (and Capcom, we need Strider next), I thought it necessary to talk about nine must-watch movies directed by the one and only Miike.
