Prolific Japanese auteur Takaski Miike ('Audition') unspools his latest gory romp in Rome

MONTREAL — Wildly prolific, equally inconsistent, brazenly audacious, and sometimes crushingly dull, Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is certainly anything but predictable. And while the director might be past his heyday when pictures like “Audition,” “Ichi The Killer,” “Visitor Q,” and “Happiness Of The Katakuris” would regularly earn space on stateside arthouse screens, Miike has hardly […]

Those with a hankering for death game-survival mangas will exult in Takashi Miike’s latest gore-fest, In which classic toys come alive to play deadly games with students.