[JFelix]

Originally Posted by Mallrats

Sometimes I think Miike goes for violence and graphicness for the shock value of it.

Well, a lot of the time, Miike does adaptations of other's works, he's done multiple manga adaptations, and well, specifically in the case of 'Ichi the Killer', he actually held back.

Originally Posted by Mallrats

When I first watched "Audition", I had to turn off the movie near the end because I wasn't ready for the graphicness of it. They can be hard to watch at times.

It's all sound effects based, I think. If you really go into the 'gore' of it, it really isn't too bad. However, the sound effects, and on top of that the fact that you sat and observed these characters for 90 minutes straight and got to know them, there's the entire sucker-punch of the film.

Originally Posted by Mallrats

Currently, I'm watching his "Fudoh: The Next Generation" which although is an entertaining film, isn't as good as his others sound to be.

I'm actually a big fan of 'Fudoh'. It has a great level of goofiness I find charming. It's like an arty, classy Troma movie.

Originally Posted by Mallrats

For Ichi, I thought the movie was a good mix of action and satire. I was laughing so hard at Jiji's "secret" that I had to turn the movie off for several minutes. Completely unexpected.

Miike uses Shinya Tuskamoto in the most amusing ways. (Tsukamoto the director of the 'Tetsuo: the Iron man' series and a bunch of movies that sadly hasn't ever received release in the US.)

I especially love how miike used Tsukamoto at the beginning of 'Dead or Alive 2'. Tsukamoto plays an over-zealous magician, who sits there and narriates a story of gangsters, using cigarettes as people, and then goes on for about a minute STRAIGHT miming out with cigarettes a mob hit. He stands there, screams in horror, unwraps the cigarette container gruesomely, and throws cigarettes. Absolutely over-the-top, and probably rivals the opening scene in the original 'Dead or Alive' for energy value.