THIS OCTOBER SPECTACLE IS PROUD TO BRING YOU  AN ALL DAY MYSTERY MARATHON OF THE WORK OF  THE GREATEST LIVING FILMMAKER, TAKASHI MIIKE.

FIND LOVE AND DIE THIS SPECTOBER.

Most famous in the west for his extreme horror and gonzo yakuza films, Miike is prolific (Over 110 features, A dozen television series) and even more influential. His films range from classy remakes to video game + manga adaptations, children's films to torture porn, samurai masterpieces to filmed stage productions, psychedelic comedies to anime -- even an upcoming collaboration with Charli XCX(?!?)

Miike's work is unflinching but humane, cruel to the point of excruciating and drawn to stories of outsider characters (queer, foreign, female) in hostile male spaces,  mordantly funny in his darkest moments, a tone none of his acolytes can ever hope to capture.

Miike cut his teeth on direct to video films (dubbed V-cinema in Japan) for a decade before exploding onto the European festival circuit at the turn of the century with his beloved gore classics Audition and Ichi the Killer. Currently he is prepping Bad Lieutenant Tokyo for release, now the third iconoclastic director in the series pantheon with Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog. He has cameos in both Hostel and the Animal Crossing movie.

He is your favorite director's favorite director. He is the hardest working submissive in show business. Spectacle can barely hope to scratch the surface in honoring him today, with this 7 film marathon.

Expect some surprises.

10 am
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dir. Takashi Miike, 1991.
Japan, 79 mins.
In Japanese and English with English subtitles.

A kidnapped child triggers an international incident, in the most rampage mode movie ever released direct to video. Imagine if Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever was remade by an insane person. 

Noon
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dir. Takashi Miike, 1999.
Japan, 85 mins.
In Japanese, Mandarin and Taiwanese with English subtitles.

Three teens of Chinese descent get in way over their heads in this lyrical gem reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai... only possessing a much crueler worldview.

2 pm
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dir. Takashi Miike, 2001.
Japan, 150 mins.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

A soulful yakuza epic that bridges the gap between Fukasaku and Kitano, largely unseen by western audiences who were already going to Miike for grossouts rather than emotional depth. 

INTERMISSION

6 pm
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dir. Takashi Miike, 1997.
Japan, 103 mins.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

A mad cybernetics scientist experiments on a severed head in this exploration of masculine ideation. *Exactly* the kind of movie you come to Spectacle to see.

8 pm
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dir. Takashi Miike, 2003.
Japan, 130 mins.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

Nightmarish and droll, two criminals stumble into a surrealistic horror tale that will have something to upset or delight just about anyone. 

10:30 pm
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dir. Takashi Miike, 2001.
Japan, 84 mins.
In Japanese with English subtitles.

One of Miike's many remakes of a beloved arthouse classic, also one of the most fucked up movies ever made.

MIDNIGHT
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dir. Takashi Miike, 2007.
Japan, 120 mins.
In English.

When art directors die they go to the set of this film in heaven. Lowkey a musical. Miike once declared "Paul Verhoeven loved it!"