Takashi Miike Into the Black

After several years spent working almost exclusively in the directtovideo world of Vcinema in Japan Takashi Miike announced himself as a worldclass filmmaking talent with this trio of thematicallyconnected charactercentric crime stories about violence the underworld of Japanese society families both real and surrogate and the possibly hopeless taks of finding ones place in the world His first films made specifically for theatrical release and his first for a major studio the Black Society Trilogy was the beginning of Mikes mature career as a filmmaker and they remain among the prolific directors finest works Here he sits down to talk about his career