Takashi Miike to Receive Maverick Director Award at Rome Film Festival — hollywoodreporter.com

Japanese director Takashi Miike will receive the maverick director award at the upcoming Rome Film Festival, a  prize that honors filmmakers who are creating a new, unconventional style of cinema. He will also bring the world premiere of his new film As the Gods Will to the festival. The latest film returns the prolific Miike to his gory roots, after delivering police thriller Shield of Straw last year in competition in Cannes. As the Gods Will is based on a manga by Muneyuki Kanshiro about teenagers who are forced to undergo a series of games where the penalty for losing is death. It’s already being described as the Japanese Hunger Games, with much more blood.

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