Koike has cited influences from filmmakers such as:
If there is a unifying thread in Koike’s diverse output—from her public sculptures to her intimate, lens-based work—it is her obsession with texture. Her recent series, Patina , currently on view at a private gallery in London, explores the decay of industrial materials. emiko koike
If you have read her available English translation, The Lady Killer (originally Renai Kinshi Ryōiki ), you know the feeling: the skin-crawling recognition that the monster is not a ghost or a serial killer, but the polite, salaryman neighbor who waters his bonsai with the same mechanical precision he might use to calculate your ruin. The Mysterious World of Emiko Koike: Unveiling the