Tokyo Underground: Takashi Miike’s Mad Bad World

If you combined the directorial styles of Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, and the bloody Grand Guignol of early Peter Jackson in one guy, you might have something like Japan’s Takashi Miike. Except maybe that he makes more films than they do—an astonishing four dozen in the last decade, usually horror and yakuza gangster movies. But he doesn’t do anything simply, and girds his stories with plenty of surrealism, black comedy, and shockingly frank sex and violence—these might be too intense for the Greek Wedding set. The Walker screens four of his recent films, the most accessible of which might be The Happiness of the Kakaturis, a musical comedy about an eccentric family in a zombie-plagued hotel that’s like a weird cross of Charles Addams, Baz Luhrmann, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Walker, 725 Vineland Place, (612) 375-7622, walkerart.org