Takashi Miike

What makes a Takashi Miike film a Takashi Miike film

Across 17 films, they run much more violence, much more strangeness and somewhat more darkness than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 17 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.