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Re-Agitator. collects more than ten years' worth of Tom Mes' writing on respected Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike. From dusty film sets in Japan to festival intrigue on the Riviera, and from the straight-to-video ghetto to the stage, Mes covers the full scope of this unclassifiable filmmaker's life and work - with the kind of detail and intimacy that only an insider can provide. This luxurious coffee-table hardback also contains previously unpublished material and explores the background and development of the Japanese film industry over the past 20 years.

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A sumptuous archive of insight into Miike's wildly varied cinema. --- Jovanka Vuckovic, director, The Captured Bird

A sumptuous archive of insight into the wildly varied cinema of Takashi Miike from the world's foremost authority. - Jovanka Vuckovic, director of The Captured Bird

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Tom Mes is the author of the widely praised book Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike (also from FAB Press) and co-author, with Jasper Sharp, of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film. He is the founder and editor of MidnightEye.com, the world's foremost publication on Japanese cinema. Mes also contributed to the anthology The Cinema of Japan and Korea. He also regularly contributes audio commentaries and liner notes to DVD releases of Japanese films worldwide. Christian Storms is one of the few foreigners who can claim to be a true insider in the world of Japanese film. As an actor, writer, dialogue coach and translator, he has gained a unique insight and familiarity both in front of and behind the camera. He is a regular and close collaborator of Takashi Miike.

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