Stop comparing Miike to Lynch

True story. Quite frankley, I still beleive Both Directors take two different sides of their films. While Lynch takes an almost American Gothic twist on his films, Miike goes all out on a more Animee style limb. Both directors have great films, but both both are relativlly different. I say this and think it's because of their enviroments. So this leaves us with the question. Are you east coast, or west coast?

I agree that both are master film makers. It just irks me that the only way that people seem to describe Miike is to compare him to Lynch. I think that each deserves their own credit, stand alone from other film makers in the industry. When I wrote the original comment, honestly I had just read about 10 user comments from various Miike films, and they all were summed up as being "lynchian."

well, at least Miike wasn't the one who made Dune.

he is better than Lynch? c'mon. Lynch is one of the few film makers that you can honestly say is a visionary. whether you like him or not is a different story. he is much better than any japanese exploitation director.

I like David Lynch. And I also like Takashi Miike. But could somebody please explain to me why people are evencomparing Lynch to Miike, and Miike to Lynch. I do not see any similarities between their films at all, other than the fact that they are both directors who make movies that have strange stories and strange characters in it. I know that Miike was inspired by Lynch in some ways, but i really don't see the comparison

Could somebody please explain this to me?

It's just surrealism, the similarity between the two. But if you say that, a lot of people would say 'huh?', so people say 'Lynchian'. That's it, no other reason to compare them, especially if you look at the general state of Japanese popular culture——a much more surreal place than the U.S. Film nerds on the other hand, can site closer comparisons or say 'surreal' and it's understood. Many artists have influences who are similar and some that are divergent——it's the strength of the artist that makes them unique, which Miike clearly is.

If you want to get a detailed look at Miike's output (and there really is a lot of bad stuff, even he would admit that I bet) then check out the book 'Agitator' which is ALL about Miike. Cheers!

Miike and Lynch for the most part have nothing to do with each other as far as style goes except for maybe being a little over the top (in very different ways.)

If the reason you're suggesting they're similar is because you saw Gozu, it's true... Gozu is Miike's tribute to David Lynch, hence the similarities (I heard after making the film he got to meet Lynch.)

Gozu is Lynchian, yeah, but Miike is not.