No More Heroes 3 can be jarring and occasionally tedious, ... They wax at length about the genius of Takashi Miike, name-dropping Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and Visitor Q.

Maybe the trick to getting your head around the career of Takashi Miike is first to realize that the maverick Japanese director hasn’t tried to redefine genres across a 100-plus-project career ...