Takashi MIIKE 三池崇史

Over Your Dead Body

喰女 – クイメ –

Nippon Cinema   ª 

Kosuke and Miyuki are a couple and rehearse a play about a husband poisoning his wife because he wants to be with a younger woman. Fiction und reality blend when Miyuki discovers Kosuke’s affair with the actress playing the role of that young woman. With this slow burning horror movie, Takashi MIIKE returns to the cold, elegant and shocking beauty of his masterpiece AUDITION.

喰女 – クイメ –
Kuime

Japan 2014

94 minutes

Director
Takashi MIIKE

Script
Kikumi YAMAGISHI

Cinematography
Nobuyasu KITA

Music
Koji ENDO

About Takashi MIIKE
三池崇史

Takashi MIIKE was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1960. During his studies at Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film, one of his teachers was famous director Shohei IMAMURA. Since his feature debut LADY HUNTER in 1991, MIIKE has created more than 100 films and TV series. Nippon Connection has kept a close eye on his career for almost 20 years, having screened his films ICHI THE KILLER (2001 / NC ’02), THE CITY OF LOST SOULS (2000 / NC ’02), THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (2001 / NC ’03), LESSON OF THE EVIL (2012 / NC ’14 and NC ’20), and OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (2014 / NC ’15).