Veteran Japanese Filmmaker Takashi Miike: “A New Wave In Japan Is Coming” — Rotterdam

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Veteran Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike has been at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) for the international premiere of his new sports film Blazing Fists.

He also featured in the festival’s ‘big talk’ this week alongside producer and frequent collaborator Misako Saka. Speaking to Deadline, Miike pointed out that this edition marked his fifth visit to IFFR and highlighted that the first thing he noticed was how the audience for his films has become older. “I’m also getting older, and ageing with the audience,” said Miike. “I first came to IFFR 25 years ago.

At that time, everybody was very young, but the audience this year is a lot older. “I’m aware that I’m getting older and I often think about how many more films I can make in my life.

Making a film, while it’s not exactly like being an athlete, it’s still very physically-intensive work.” Directing over 100 feature film, video and television productions in the last 35 years, Miike is known for cult classics like Audition (2000), Ichi the Killer (2001) and 13 Assassins (2011).