#Nao Ohmori

[genevieveetguy]

Tokyo!, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry and Bong Joon Ho (2008)

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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

My rating: 5/10

It's Ghibli, so of course it's pretty, but man does the script ever suck - uninteresting characters involved in uninteresting plots, and then suddenly incest except no wait it isn't but it wouldn't have mattered either way, they say. This is just deeply mediocre.

[may8chan]

Museum

[brody75]

Ichi the Killer (2001)

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The Ravine of Goodbye 

[watchingalotofmovies]

First Love

First Love    [trailer]

A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.

Another darkly funny instance in which a well-thought-out plan (well, sort of) goes continuously, horribly wrong.

It has quite a large cast of characters. But Miike is able to introduce them properly and it is easy to keep up with the various story strands. And the number gets incrementally ... smaller as the film progresses.

The ending feels a bit overly cheesy.

[thewailign]

Ichi The Killer (2001)

Director: Takashi Miike

Cinematographer: Hideo Yamamoto

[twilightronin]

Koroshiya 1

[genevieveetguy]

First Love (Hatsukoi), Takashi Miike (2019)

[hadarlaskey]

The Great Yokai War: Guardians – first-look review

Sixteen years and over 30 feature credits ago, Takashi Miike directed The Great Yokai War, one of the prolific Japanese filmmaker’s earliest forays into family-oriented fantasy. The film’s narrative incorporated various creatures from Japanese mythology, known as yōkai, whereby a modern boy is chosen to team up with them to destroy evil forces.

Now, Miike has directed a belated follow-up, The Great Yokai War: Guardians – although the standalone story by Yûsuke Watanabe (a veteran of Dragon Ball Z and Attack on Titan films) is really more a spiritual sequel, requiring no real understanding of its predecessor. This wildly entertaining fantasy adventure gets by on exuberant direction, game performances from a large ensemble, and lavish production design and makeup work. For a sense of the aesthetic, imagine a mix of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy films and Clive Barker’s Nightbreed.

One night young Kei (Kokoro Terada) is transported to the world of yōkai. He’s told he is the descendant of a great demon-slaying warrior, and so is tasked by leader Nurarihyon (Nao Ohmori, Ichi of Miike’s Ichi the Killer) to assist in defeating the Yokaiju, a gigantic sea demon set to collide with Tokyo. When Kei refuses out of fear, circumstances mean his younger brother Dai (Rei Inomata) is seized by the desperate yōkai to help achieve their goal. Having sworn to his late father that he’d always protect Dai, Kei must catch up to his brother before it’s too late.

If you’re particularly well-versed in Japanese genre cinema and its history, you might recognise a number of the featured yōkai characters as having appeared in other notable films before, sometimes as headliners. One example is the title character of the Daimajin trilogy (all from 1966), a wrathful spirit sealed inside a giant ancient statue. Miike also incorporates tanuki, a species of canid considered to be magic which notably feature in Studio Ghibli’s Pom Poko. Guardians works without any prior knowledge of the various spirits, monsters and demons it concerns, but there is additional fun to be had for anyone with even a little.

Virtually every yōkai featured even briefly in the film reassembles for a mass showdown in the final stretch, turning the film into a massive crossover event for multiple legends. With that in mind, it’s amusing that Miike seems to be deliberately riffing on a specific sequence from global box office behemoth Avengers: Endgame, where almost every living super-powered character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe charged en masse at a seismic threat. Miike’s even got a kaiju-size walking statue filling in for Giant-Man’s visual role in that famous set piece.

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[may8chan]

Hatsukoi

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Ichi the killer is such great film. The cast was really impressive, especially Tandanobu Asano (kakihara), he gave off this really creepy but also very likable vibe. The actors really made this film more entertaining. Me and B really loved the cast’s outfits, our favorite outfits were Kakihara’s and Karen’s! Overall the film was amazing all though it was a bit confusing near the end, but that kind of makes it more fun, it makes you try and guess the story and come up with conspiracies. 

Description from IMDb:  When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?

RATE: 8.5

DATE OF RELEASE:2001

GENRE: Crime-action, Horror

DIRECTOR: Takashi Miike

WRITERS: Sakichi sato (Screenplay), Hideo Yamato (Manga)

CAST: 

Tandanobo Asano as Kakihara

Nao ohmori as Ichi

Shin’ya Tsukamoto as Jiji

Paulyn sun as Karen

Susumu Terjima as Suzuki  of the Funaki gang

Shun Sugata as Takayama of the Anjo gang

Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Ryu Long

Thanks for reading! See ya!

*:･ﾟ✧ BY W *:･ﾟ✧

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Ichi the Killer (2001) (Definitive Remastered Edition) (Blu-ray Review)

Ichi the Killer (2001) (Definitive Remastered Edition) (Blu-ray Review)

Ichi the Killer (2001) (Definitive Remastered Edition) (Blu-ray Review) Directed By: Takashi Miike Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Shin’ya Tsukamoto Rated: UR/Region A/1:85/1080p/Number of Discs 1 Available from Well Go USA 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…

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FIRST LOVE Review - ***½

FIRST LOVE Review – ***½

A sullen young boxer (Masataka Kubota) afflicted with a life-threatening tumor. A drug-addicted prostitute (Sakurako Konishi), selling herself to pay off her father’s debts. A scheming Yakuza (Shōta Sometani), plotting to bring down his boss with the help with a crooked cop (Nao Ohmori). The vengeful girlfriend (Becky) of a murdered criminal. And a Chinese woman who laments the failure of real…

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Ichi the Killer (2001)

Director: Takashi Miike

Cinematographer: Hideo Yamamoto