Miike fascinates me because of the sheer quantity and variety of his work. He establishes a strong fanbase in the West with violent, nasty films like Audition and Ichi the Killer, and then utterly confuses those fans by making a kids flick like The Great Yokai War. He also has no problem between jumping from a high budget studio picture (he's filming a US$30m samurai epic right now) to something shot on a shoestring on digital video and released direct to DVD.

And yeah, he makes so many films. It's hard to keep up.