Today I woke up to discover Takashi Miike’s latest film, Lumberjack The Monster, is available to stream on Netflix. This live action horror thriller stars Kazuya Kamenashi as a psychopathic laywer turned vigilante as he sets out to stop a masked serial killer with strange abilities.
Takashi Miike has a reputation as the international bad boy of asian cinema with a huge catalogue of over 100 dark and strange, funny, violent and horrific films such as Audition, Dead Or Alive, Ichi The Killer, 13 Assassins, and many more strange and beautifully weird films and anime series. His work is impossible to pin down because he's not afraid to mix several genres within one film so you never quite know where the story won’t go. So it's surprising to find this lengendary auteur’s latest film released on Netflix with zero publicity or fanfare. In fact, you'll have to hunt it down before the masked serial killer hunts you down first.
Lumberjack The Monster is available to stream on Netflix.