Most noted for his Yakuza-action films, it's his insane horror depictions in films such as Audition, Imprint and Ichi The Killer that gets this blogger excited.
Here he is with a new one KUIME (over your dead body) and it looks suitably weird and gory.
A pair of lovers, who act in the same play, are thrown into their own hell where the play begins to unfold horrifyingly in real life.