Takashi Miike (三池 崇史 Miike Takashi, born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly.

Filmography

• 2026Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo — Director
• 2026Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki — Director
• 富士山大噴火 迫る“灰色の悪夢” — Director
• 富士山大噴火 迫る“灰色の悪夢” — Director
• 2025Blazing Fists — Director
• Masked NINJA Akakage — Director
• 2025New Abarenbō Shōgun — Director
• Nyaight of the Living Cat — Other, Sound Director
• 2025Sham — Director
• Horror's Greatest — Self - Director, Audition
• Inspector Daimajin — Director
• 2023Lumberjack the Monster — Director
• Onimusha — Other
• Connect — Director, Creator
• RizSta -Top of Artists!- — Director
• Bittomo x Senshi Kirameki Powers! — Director
• 2021Police × Heroine Lovepatrina! Movie Version ~Challenge from a Phantom Thief! Let's Arrest with Love and a Pat!~ — Director
• 2021The Great Yokai War: Guardians — Director
• 2021The Mole Song: Final — Director
• Police × Warrior Love Patrina ! — Director, Creator
• 2020Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! ~We've Become a Movie~ — Director
• ‎Lesson of the Evil: Prologue — Producer
• 2019First Love — Director
• Secret × Warrior Phantomirage! — Director, Creator
• 2019That Moment, My Heart Cried — Director
• 2018Laplace's Witch — Director
• Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures! — Director, Creator
• 2017Blade of the Immortal — Director
• Idol × Warrior Miracle Tunes! — Director, Creator
• 2017Idol × Warrior: Miracle Tunes! Pilot — Director
• 2017JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1 — Director
• 2016Terra Formars — Director
• 2016The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio — Director
• 2015The Lion Standing in the Wind — Director
• 2015Yakuza Apocalypse — Director
• 2014As the Gods Will — Director
• 2014Over Your Dead Body — Director
• 2013Blue Planet Brothers — Director
• Higanjima — Director
• 2013Shield of Straw — Director
• 2013The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji — Director
• 2012Ace Attorney — Member of courtroom gallery, Director
• 2012For Love's Sake — Director
• 2012Lesson of the Evil — Director, Screenplay
• 2012Lesson of the Evil: Prologue — Producer
• 2011Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai — Director
• 2011Ninja Kids!!! — Director
• QP — Director
• 201013 Assassins — Director
• 2010Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City — Director
• 2009Crows Zero II — Director
• 2009Yatterman — Director
• 2008Cell Phone Investigator 7: Pilot — Director
• Cellphone Investigator 7 — Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• 2008God's Puzzle — Director
• 2008Zatoichi Live — Director, Writer
• 2007Crows Zero — Director
• 2007Detective Story — Director
• 2007Pledge To Peace — Director, Editor
• 2007Sukiyaki Western Django — Director, Writer
• 2007Yakuza: Like a Dragon — Director
• 2006Animal Crossing: The Movie — Rakosuke (voice)
• 2006Big Bang Love, Juvenile A — Director
• 2006Hostel — Miike Takashi
• 2006Imprint — Director
• 2006Like a Dragon: Prologue — Executive Producer, Director
• 2006Sun Scarred — Director
• 2006Waru — Director
• 2006Waru: The End — Director
• 2005Arthouse Ultraman — Director
• 2005Demon Pond — Director
• 2005Live Golden Years Thanks 0201 at BUDOKAN — Director
• 2005Neighbour No. 13 — Kaneda
• 2005The Great Yokai War — Screenplay, Director
• Ultraman Max — Director
• 2005Young Thugs: Malaysian Tiger
• 2004Izo — Director
• 2004Katanas, yakuzas y cintas de video — (archive footage)
• 2004Making of Zebraman — Director
• 2004Otakus in Love
• 2004Part-Time Detective 2 — Director
• 2004Three... Extremes — Director
• 2004Zebraman — Director
• 2003Gozu — Director
• 2003Last Life in the Universe — Yakuza
• 2003Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri
• 2003One Missed Call — Director
• 2003The Making Of One Missed Call
• 2003The Man in White — Director
• 2003The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion — Director
• 2003The Negotiator — Director
• 2003Yakuza Demon — Informant in stairwell, Director
• 2003Yakuza Detective
• 2002DOA Final: Original Making-of Featurette
• 2002Dead or Alive: Final — Director
• 2002Deadly Outlaw: Rekka — Director
• 2002Graveyard of Honor — Restaurant Gunman, Director
• 2002Ichi the Killer: Episode Zero — Kakihara (voice)
• 2002Kumamoto Stories — Director
• 2002Part-Time Detective — Director
• 2002Sabu — Director
• 2002Shangri-La — Director
• 2002The Happiness of the Katakuris — Director
• 2001Agitator — Shinozaki, Director
• 2001Family — Director, Director of Photography
• 2001Family 2 — Director
• 2001Ichi the Killer — Director
• 2001The Guys from Paradise — Director
• 2001The Making Of The Katakuris
• 2001The Security Woman Affair
• 2001Visitor Q — Director
• 2000Audition — Director
• 2000DOA 2: Original Making-Of Featurette
• 2000Dead or Alive 2: Birds — Director
• 2000Isola: Multiple Personality Girl — Disheveled man on a cart
• MPD Psycho — Director, Screenplay, Creator
• 2000Making of Gemini — Producer, Director
• 2000The City of Lost Souls — Director
• 1999Dead or Alive — Director
• 1999Ley Lines — Director
• Man, a Natural Girl — Director
• 1999N-Girls Vs Vampire — Director
• 1999Silver — Director
• 1999White-Collar Worker Kintaro — Director
• 1998Andromedia — Director
• 1998Blues Harp — Director
• 1998Golden Wolf: Resurrection 2
• 1998The Bird People in China — Director
• 1998Young Thugs: Nostalgia — Director
• 1997Ambition Without Honor 2 — Director
• 1997Full Metal Yakuza — Director
• 1997Rainy Dog — Director
• 1997Young Thugs: Innocent Blood — Director
• 1996Ambition Without Honor — Director
• 1996Fudoh: The New Generation — Director
• 1996New Third Gangster — Director
• 1996New Third Gangster II — Director
• 1996Peanuts — Director
• 1996The Way to Fight — Director
• 1995Another Lonely Hitman — Drug Dealer
• 1995Bodyguard Kiba: Combat Apocalypse 2 — Director
• 1995Osaka Tough Guys — Director
• 1995Shinjuku Triad Society — Director
• 1995The King of Minami: City of Desire — Producer
• 1995The King of Minami: The Special Movie — Producer
• 1995The Third Gangster — Director
• 1994Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage — Director
• 1994Kyouju Luger P08
• 1994Shinjuku Outlaw — Director
• 1993Bodyguard Kiba — Director
• 1993We're No Angels — Director
• 1993We're No Angels 2 — Director
• 1992A Human Murder Weapon — Director
• 1992Confinement Escape — Associate Producer
• 1991Eyecatch Junction — Director
• 1991Lady Hunter: Prelude to Murder — Director
• 1991Last Run: 100 Million Yen's Worth of Love and Betrayal — Director
• 1991Shimanto River — First Assistant Director
• 1990Peesuke: Gatapishi story — Assistant Director
• 1990Ronin-gai — Assistant Director
• 1989Black Rain — Factory Worker, Assistant Director
• 1989Saga of the Phoenix — Assistant Director
• 1988The Peacock King — Assistant Director
• 1988Tomorrow — Assistant Director
• 1988墓場から生きかえった男 — Assistant Director
• 1987This Story of Love — Assistant Director
• 1987Zegen — Assistant Director
• Ririka of the Star
• Untitled Kyoto Project — Director, Idea

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2025Chain Reactions — Self
• 2024Takashi Miike : The V-Emperor — Himself
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Filmmaker
• 2013An Interview with Alien Sun — Self
• 2013An Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto — Self
• 2013An Interview with Takashi Miike — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Behind the Scenes — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Making Of — Self
• 2011Japanese Cinema: New Territories — Self
• 2009Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza — Himself
• 2007Eli on Ichi — Self
• 2006Hostel Dissected — Self
• 2004Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! — Self