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Article: Takashi Miike's cinema of outrage.
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- CineAction
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- March 22, 2004
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Despite Western art cinema audiences' appreciation of canonical works
of Japanese cinema as represented by Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi,
and Yasujiro Ozu, most devotees tend to forget that a popular cinema
existed during the same period, apart from Toho's original Godzilla
series, which never gained Western attention until fairly recently
via cable and DVD/VHS distribution. This cinema co-existed with those
prestigious works chosen for screening abroad at film festivals and
art house cinemas. They also had much to say about changing social
movements within Japanese society in ways similar to those revered
works. Takashi Miike's films ...