It\u2019s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have a film stealth drop on Netflix. But that\u2019s what happens when you make as many flicks as the director of \u201cAudition,\u201d \u201c13 Assassins,\u201d and \u201cIchi the Killer\u201d has helmed over his illustrious career. Seriously, there\u2019s a very strong chance he\u2019s on a set right now, having accumulated over 100 directorial credits as of this writing. However, Miike is more than a \u201cstat compiler\u201d; he\u2019s an ace craftsman who rarely phones it in, elevating a truly clunky project like \u201cLumberjack the Monster\u201d into something better than it has any right to be. The script by Hiroyoshi Koiwai doesn\u2019t exactly hold together narratively or thematically. Still, there are Miike touches throughout \u201cLumberjack\u201d that keep it entertaining, even if he’s probably made a better movie while you\u2019re reading this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s incredible that a filmmaker as renowned as Takashi Miike can have a film stealth drop on Netflix. But that\u2019s what happens when you make as many flicks as the director of \u201cAudition,\u201d \u201c13 Assassins,\u201d and \u201cIchi the Killer\u201d has helmed over his illustrious career. Seriously, there\u2019s a very strong chance he\u2019s on a set …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50,45,37],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama-movies","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}