The Muzan-e has influenced many modern day art formats and ero guro can be found in manga with the works of Suehiro Maruo, Shintaro Kago or Toshio Maeda; in many live action films such as the pink film movement and most of the works of director Takashi Miike and even non-Japanese artists such as Trevor Brown.
Sun Scarred (Taiyo no kizu) is a 2006 film directed by Takashi Miike.
The Guys from Paradise (Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.
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Upcoming film works include as a leading role And Then I Knew 'Twas Wind by Yoshihiro Hanno, a co-starring role in Shin Yotsuya Kaidan by Takashi Miike, and a co-starring role in Tokyo Tribe by Sion Sono.
His music has been used in the films of cult directors Takashi Miike and Kōji Wakamatsu, and he also appears in person in Miike's Izo (2004).
Since her debut Takahashi has worked with many prominent directors; playing Kawahime, the River Princess, in Takashi Miike's horror-fantasy children's film Yokai Daisenso (released in the U.S. in 2006 as The Great Yokai War.) She also appeared in Sion Sono's 2005 film Kimyo na Sakasu (Strange Circus), Yoshihiro Nakamura's Busu (The Booth, 2005), and in Hitoshi Yazaki's 2006 film Strawberry Shortcakes.
Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
"Rain" was featured as the second ending theme song for K-tai Investigator 7, a 2008 Japanese television drama directed by Takashi Miike.
In 2005, Takashi Miike directed the first new entry in the series, The Great Yokai War, which was more or less a remake of Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare.
This drama stars puroresu champion Masakatsu Funaki in the title role and is a prequel to the original episode of the Yakuza series which was itself ported on the screen by Takashi Miike as Like a Dragon: Movie Version.