殺し屋１(Ichi the Killer) dir. Takashi Miike
“There’s no love in your violence.”
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#63 Koroshiya Ichi (2001. Takashi Miike)
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“Gozu grows up to be a man, the village in the song, ‘I’m sorry I was born as a man, a cow man.’ The song goes, ‘I’m sorry I was born, but I cannot give you a meal, because I’m a man.’ It was a song about being a man, because he cannot give the meal to anyone else. It’s a really sad song because even though he was born as a cow, he cannot produce the milk, that you cannot please everyone. And this is in the film, Gozu is a symbol of the film. But Gozu doesn’t really tell you what the Gozu is. So it’s a song about ‘I’m sorry I didn’t give you any food,’ which is what the movie’s about.”
(Takashi Miike)
quote for a new film studies book, Incoherent Explanations of Fascinating Movies
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Eihi Shiina, Renji Ishibashi,
Audition (1999, Takashi Miike)
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Audition, 1999 (dir. Takashi Miike)
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Merry Christmas my to my awesome followers.
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Takashi Miike photographed by Denis Rouvre
Takashi Miike
“I became a director because I didn’t have another choice. I dreamed of becoming a motorbike racer because I love motorbikes a lot. I think anyone can become a director, especially if you have money… If there is a 1 – 10 scale for talent, then a 10 point talent is a director, but a 1 point person can also become a director if he has the talent to make the right contacts. In motorbike racing on the other hand the winner is always an extreme talent. Even if we train a lot we can’t beat them. I admire that kind of world. But I didn’t have a choice. I never thought about becoming a director before. I considered the occupation of film director as being for the intelligentsia.”
“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.”
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