Should stick to what he knows best

I would suggest you watch 'Bird People In China', this film shows that Miike is able to make films with a 'serious topic with deep emotions and feelings'.

I havnt seen the movie yet, but saying that miike should stick to what he knows best is a little much in my opinion.
I love that Miike does all differnt kinds of genres and doesnt just stick to Yakuza or Horror flicks all the time.

Sabu, The Bird Peopl Of China and Rainy Dog where all good movies with deep emotions and feelings imo.

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IMO the movie presents the characters only on the surface; the only character that I felt sympathy for is the 13 year-old rich kid who is obsessed with violence (knives and guns) and he remains being only just a misguided and easily influenced kid.

I think the relevance of this particular character was that often times violent adults display early "warning signs" of animal abuse as children. The scene where the boy was stabbing the cat and enjoying it was a sign of the path the kid would take, if there weren't some kind of intervention.

When I look back at the movie, I see a very deep look at teens, at leaders and followers. Kamiki was a leader, the Alpha male, as it were. In the first violent scene, Kamiki was in the background, and the other kids were doing his work. When Katayama-san intervened, and beat them all up, the result was that the "followers" quit. Kihara told Kamiki right away that he was out - he got thrown off the bridge. Sudou found a new life after his time im juvie, but Kamiki remained unchanged. Years later, Kamiki was a legend among the 3 "gang" teens. The one revealed that they had never seen him, so via IMs and txts he was able to bring these kids to do his bidding.

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What he knows best? Considering more than half of his films are lousy, overlong yakuza films...