366 Weird Movies

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Entries Tagged ‘Takashi Miike’

BORDERLINE WEIRD: VISITOR Q [Bijitâ Q] (2001)

DIRECTED BY: Takashi Miike
FEATURING: Ken’ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô, Fujiko
PLOT: A bizarrely dysfunctional Japanese family—dad is a TV reporter on haitus after

being sodomized by interviewees on camera, mom is a heroin addict and part-time hooker, son is bullied at school and beats his mother at home—becomes even stranger and more antisocial [...]

CAPSULE: ONE MISSED CALL [CHAKUSHIN ARI] (2003)

DIRECTED BY:  Takashi Miike
FEATURING: Kou Shibasaki, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi
PLOT:  Students begin receiving phone calls from their own cell phones, dated three days

in the future; the message is their own voice screaming, and the end up dead at the appointed time.

WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST:  Weird director Miike adds a few surreal style points at the [...]