“I thought the chairman was crazy,” he laughs. Mikami says it was “a crazy big dream” at the time, as the only gaming company that was listed in the first level of the Japanese stock exchange was Nintendo. There, he found out Capcom’s chairman, Kenzo Tsujimoto, wanted to make a public stock offering for the company. After that, his friend brought him a flyer for a party at Capcom, which was hiring, so he attended. He was rejected, however, and tried to get interviews for finance jobs, which also didn’t work out. What he did know was that he wanted a job where he could create something, so he applied to steel manufacturer Nippon Steel, which was moving into the bio industry at the time. It wasn’t until he was 22 that he had enough money to get the Famicom, Nintendo’s home console.īut when it came to starting his career, gaming wasn’t necessarily his focus. But eventually, he conceded, and started to go more and more often, taking to fighting games at the time. Around the age of 20, his friends started dragging him to arcades - reluctantly, at first.

Long before the days of Capcom and “Resident Evil,” Mikami’s first experience with games, he remembers, was playing “Space Invaders” in a café for ¥100 per game. “You want more detail than that, though, right?” “I started because I really liked games,” Mikami says.

(1.Below, Mikami talks about his start, the beginning of the survival horror genre, why he left Capcom and started Tango, what he wants to do in the future and why he might not be done directing just yet. At that point, it’s probably more enjoyable to just root for the army of the dead. The other character hugs him and asks, “Are you hurt?” Me: Er, lady, what did he just tell you? Cue eye-roll. In one scene, after a tussle with a monster, one character tells another that he’s broken two ribs. They say “I don’t know”, or words to that effect, a lot. (Is this the fault of the DoP or the projectionist?) The characters, on top of being bland as fudge, are also not very bright. Then again, it’s so poorly lit that it’s hard to make sense of the mayhem. (To be fair, the Jovovich-era movies are no paradigm of filmmaking either but at least some of the entries are fun to watch.) Video game fans, I’m guessing here, will get excited over the Easter eggs, whereas regular folks wonder if they deserve more than just fan service like decent zombie scares and gnarly zombie-slaying action. But guess what? She’s too late! The movie is set in 1998 but it also feels like one made in 1998, as if the zombie-renaissance of the noughties never happened. Crawl) returning to her titular Midwestern hometown - aka ground zero of evil Umbrella Corporation’s zombie-making T-Virus outbreak - to warn estranged brother Robbie Amell ( The Babysitter) of an impending disaster.

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