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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Dead Or Alive 2: Birds Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa Riki Takeuchi Another great movie from Takashi Miike (Thursday, June 27, 2002)
	Black Cat's Revenge Japan 1970 Teruo Ishii (Director, Writer) Nikkatsu Corporation (Production Company) Meiko Kaji Hoki Tokuda Makoto Satō Hideo Sunazuka Shirō Ōtsuji Tōru Abe Yôko Takagi Chūsei Sone (Writer) Sei Kitaizumi (Cinematographer) Hajime Kaburagi (Soundtrack) Intriguing mix of styles and moods (Sunday, August 13, 2006)
	City Of Lost Souls Japan 2000 Takashi Miike (Director) Teah Michelle Reis Ren Osugi Terence Yin Yoji Tanaka Patricia Manterola Mitsuhiro Oikawa Koji Kikkawa Akaji Maro Atsushi Okuno Akira Emoto Seishu Hase (Writer) Ichiro Ryu (Writer) Naosuke Imaizumi (Cinematographer) Best use of CGI in a movie ever! (Saturday, October 13, 2001)
	Like A Dragon Japan 2007 Takashi Miike (Director) Toei Company (Production Company) Kazuki Kitamura Goro Kishitani Sho Aikawa YosiYosi Arakawa Kenichi Endo Yoo Gong Haruhiko Kato Tomoro Taguchi Natsuo Tomita Claude Maki Yutaka Matsushige Sansei Shiomi Saki Takaoka Seiji Togawa (Writer) Masashi Sogo (Writer) Hideo Yamamoto (Cinematographer) Koji Endo (Soundtrack) Miike finds another fresh way to take on the Yakuza genre (Wednesday, December 5, 2012)
	Sonatine Japan 1993 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Aya Kokumai Tetsu Watanabe Masanobu Katsumura Susumu Terajima Ren Osugi Tonbo Zushi Joe Hisaishi (Soundtrack) Beautifully meditative take on the yakuza film (Sunday, December 15, 2013)
	Boiling Point Japan 1990 Takeshi Kitano (Director, Actor, Writer) Yûrei Yanagi Gadarukanaru Taka Eri Fuse Makoto Ashikawa Etsushi Toyokawa Stylish and whimsical (Friday, July 24, 2020)
	Dangan Runner Japan 1996 Sabu (Director, Actor, Writer) Tomoro Taguchi Diamond Yukai Shinichi Tsutsumi Akaji Maro Ren Osugi Hiroshi Shimizu Ikko Suzuki Keisuke Horibe Absurdity becomes transcendence (Thursday, March 11, 2021)
	Unlucky Monkey Japan 1998 Sabu (Director, Actor, Writer) Shinichi Tsutsumi Hiroshi Shimizu Akira Yamamoto Ikko Suzuki Kimika Yoshino Susumu Terajima Kanji Tsuda Denden Ren Osugi Tomoro Taguchi Yoji Tanaka Diamond Yukai Daisuke Okamoto (Soundtrack) Shuji Kuriyama (Cinematographer) Crime and punishment (Monday, March 15, 2021)
	High & Low The Movie 3: Final Mission Japan 2017 Shigeaki Kubo (Director) Tsuyoshi Nakakuki (Director) Takanori Iwata Hiroomi Tosaka Shô Aoyagi Shintarô Akiyama Kôsei Amano Nobuyuki Suzuki Yûya Endô Karen Fujii Yuki Yamada Masataka Kubota Kento Hayashi Keita Machida Kenjiro Yamashita Naoki Kobayashi Goro Kishitani Takashi Sasano Ryôhei Abe Keisuke Horibe Yû Inaba Joey Iwanaga Wataru Ichinose Masaya Katô Kosuke Toyohara Hôka Kinoshita Tatsuya Nakamura Kanta Satô Norihisa Hiranuma (Writer) Kei Watanabe (Writer) Yasutaka Nagano (Cinematographer) Hikaru Yasuda (Cinematographer) A new low bar for the franchise (Sunday, March 21, 2021)
	Waru Japan 2006 Takashi Miike (Director) Sho Aikawa Yoshihiko Hakamada Ryo Ishibashi Tamio Kawaji Hikaru Kawamura Hisao Maki (Actor, Writer) Keiko Matsuzaka Kazuya Nakayama Hitoshi Ozawa Yûta Sone Nagare Hagiwara Johnny Ohkura Kimika Yoshino Kazunari Tanaka (Cinematographer) Not one (or two) of Miike's best (Friday, November 3, 2023)