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Takeshi Kitano
Director, Actor
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano - David Bowie endures the hardships of a Japanese POW camp in WWII. Stylish melodrama, memorably scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Violent Cop (1989)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Popular entertainer 'Beat' Takeshi's directing debut is a stylish, witty yet cynical and disturbing elegy to violence executed with alarming…
Boiling Point (3-4x10) (1990)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Director 'Beat' Takeshi captures the relentlessly simmering tensions between yakuza factions mainly focusing on a docile gas station attendant and a…
Scene at the Sea, A (1991)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Kuroudo Maki, Hiroko Oshima, Sabu Kawahara… - One from dir. Kitano’s (HANA–BI) quieter side, this fable of deaf–mute garbageman’s obsession with surfing is deceptively minimal,…
Sonatine (1993)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Ayo Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe - Those familiar with 'Beat' Takeshi's films will know what to expect from this latest elegy to gangster violence. His personal demons manifest in…
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)- Dir. Richard Longo
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-T… - Keanu Reeves as futuristic cyber courier, dude! Aimed well below the high–concept, author William Gibson gleefully cannibalizes much of his…
Kids Return (1996)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Ando Masanobu, Kaneko Ken - Two feckless delinquents discover the local boxing–gym, which provides inspiration for one and an entry into a yakuza gang for the other.…
Hana-Bi (1997)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osusi - 'Beat' Takeshi cements his reputation as the modern visionary of Japanese cinema with his most celebrated film to date, returning as the formidably…
Kikujiro (Kikujiro no Natsu) (1999)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - An uncharacteristically easy–going, episodic road movie from one–man movie machine, Beat Takeshi, whose impassive screen persona snugly…
Gohatto (Taboo) (1999)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai–training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his…
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