Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi

This is one of my favourite Miike movies. Much as I love the OTT manga style, and the deadly serious yakuza movies, I've also been well impressed by the "normal" movies he's made. Critics who claim that he's manically weird... Full review

Miike does not wish to be pigeon-holed. Along with such disturbing films as 'Ichi the Killer' or action films like 'City of Lost Souls', he produces touching stories like 'The Bird People of China' or 'Guys From Paradise'. The first... Full review

A Japanese businessman is arrested in the Phillipines for possession of heroin, and promptly delivered to a Filipino prison. Inside, he hooks up with the small Japanese community there, a bunch of colourful characters who stick together. He finds that... Full review

Falsely charged with heroin possession and unceremoniously traded in by his fiancée, slick yuppie Kohei Hayakawa (Koji Kikkawa) finds himself a stranger in Paradise of a very wrong kind. Stranger yet, in the fullness of time this Phillipines prison camp... Full review