Johnny Mnemonic
1995
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- Boiling Point. Boiling Point is Kitano’s second film as a director and first film as a screen writer. Although not as polished as some of his classics, it introduced create many characteristics and themes that are prevalent throughout future films such as Sonatine, Hana-Bi and Brother.
- Achilles And The Tortoise. Takeshi Kitano’s last entry to his surrealist autobiographical trilogy is also the strongest of the series, this is due to many reasons including the return to a simpler narrative structure and less surrealism.
- Getting Any? While Kitano’s other films contain comedic scenes, it took him until his 5th directed film before he made a full blown comedy. Returning to his comedic roots for Getting Any?
- Takeshis’ Takeshis’ was the first film of the director’s “creative destruction”. Although Takeshis’ is extremely unconventional and not very accessible, it is still a somewhat engaging ride.
1. Fireworks. 1997 1h 43m. 7.7 (33K) Rate. 83 Metascore. Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions. Director Takeshi Kitano Stars Takeshi Kitano Kayoko Kishimoto Ren Ôsugi. 2. Sonatine. 1993 1h 34m R. 7.5 (23K) Rate. 73 Metascore.
1. Fireworks. 1997 1h 43m. 7.7 (33K) Rate. 83 Metascore. Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions. Director Takeshi Kitano Stars Takeshi Kitano Kayoko Kishimoto Ren Ôsugi. 2. Kikujiro. 1999 2h 2m PG-13. 7.7 (22K) Rate. 44 Metascore.
- Takeshi Kitano: A Multifaceted Filmmaker
- The Artistic Versatility of Takeshi Kitano
- Takeshi Kitano’s Cinematic Journey
- A Scene at The Sea
- Zatoichi
- Kikujiro
- Sonatine
- Hana-Bi
Takeshi Kitano is an inscrutable filmmaker with some exceptional movies in his kitty. On the one hand, his experimentation with form and bizarre mixture of slapstick humor, sentimentality, and violence transcends the inherent nature of the generic narrative, foregrounding the humanity and absurdity of his characters. On the other hand, he can entir...
By delicately describing Takeshi Kitano’s movies as a ‘very acquired taste’, one could expect him to be an obscure artist, familiar only in the arthouse circles. But Kitano is a huge star in Japan. In fact, he is ‘Beat’ Takashi, the iconic television personality and wisecracker. His comedic routines are borrowed chiefly from Japanese comic traditio...
Takeshi Kitano started acting in movies and TV from the early 1980s, his first famous role was playing Sergeant Hara, a guard at the prisoner-of-war camp in Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983). In 1989, Takeshi Kitano directed his first film titled ‘Violent Cop’ after the veteran Japanese film-maker Kinji Fukasaku left the project. ...
This sublime feature about a deaf-mute young man obsessed with a surfboard is sandwiched between two of Takeshi Kitano’s mediocre works. One is a freewheeling gangster feature (‘Boiling Point’), and the other is a confounding slapstick comedy (‘Getting Any?’). A Scene at the Sea is a film of stillness, a snapshot of the idyllic that it’s hard to gr...
It would be hard to recreate the magic of a franchise that’s as legendary as the Zatoichi series of films. The illustrious star Shintaro Katsu played the role of crafty blind masseur and master swordsman between 1962 and 1989 in 26 films. Takeshi Kitano’s version perfectly captures the essence of the original films while also withholding the essent...
Kikujiro’s plot is so minimal. Nine-year-old Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) has no father, and never met his mother who is supposedly working far away. He lives with his grandmother and the sad-faced boy comes across his mother’s address. With little money and no idea how far the place is, the kid embarks on a journey. But when the boy is ambushed by som...
Sonatine turned Takeshi Kitano from being a ubiquitous Japanese celebrity to a well-regarded cultural export. Though a commercial failure, the film brought him international attention. Kitano plays Murakawa, a yakuza embroiled in inter-gang warfare. The world-weary Murakawa looking for a way out is approached to settle a dispute involving an allied...
This film that was included in Akira Kurosawa’s 100 favorite movies is the thematically and aesthetically strongest work from Takeshi Kitano. In Hana-Bi (Fireworks), he plays a hardened cop named Nishi, who has lost a child and his wife (Kayoko Kishimoto) is dying of leukemia. Adding to the woes, a stakeout operation goes wrong as Nishi’s younger p...
Takeshi Kitano. Actor: The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi. Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior. He learned comedy, singing and dancing from famed comedian Senzaburô Fukami.
- January 1, 1
- 1.68 m
- Tokyo, Japan
Nov 19, 2015 · His films, both the ones he directed and the ones he acted in, have netted him awards in festivals all over the world and are overwhelmingly internationally acclaimed. Here are his 10 best films in his former capacity. 10. Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
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May 21, 2017 · It could easily be a starting point for anyone wanting to check out Takeshi Kitano’s filmography. Some of Kitano’s regular actors make the trip across the pond to star in this film including Claude Maki and the brilliant Susumu Terajima.
