Takashi Miike: Best Horror Films

Audition and Ichi the Killer: one of Japan's most prolific and provocative directors. Best known for Audition, Ichi the Killer and As the Gods Will.

1. 

   Audition (2000)

   Rated 7.1 on TMDB

   Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition.

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2. 

   Ichi the Killer (2001)

   Rated 7.0 on TMDB

   As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only…

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3. 

   As the Gods Will (2014)

   Rated 7.1 on TMDB

   High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting.

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4. 

   Visitor Q (2001)

   Rated 6.3 on TMDB

   In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up,…

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5. 

   One Missed Call (2003)

   Rated 6.2 on TMDB

   People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their…

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6. 

   Three... Extremes (2004)

   Rated 6.8 on TMDB

   Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.

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7. 

   Terra Formars (2016)

   Rated 6.1 on TMDB

   With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface.

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8. 

   Gozu (2003)

   Rated 6.8 on TMDB

   Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search.

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9. 

   Lesson of the Evil (2012)

   Rated 6.7 on TMDB

   Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among…

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10. 

    The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002)

    Rated 6.9 on TMDB

    The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard.

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11. 

    Imprint (2006)

    Rated 6.8 on TMDB

    An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.

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12. 

    Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

    Rated 6.0 on TMDB

    When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get used to his new powers before seeking revenge.

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