Takeshi Kitano News

Japanese actor and director Takeshi Kitano s film Blood and Bones shows vividly the heat of the day when permanent Korean residents in Japan left there for North Korea.

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Secretive Japanese helmer Takeshi Kitano has finally unveiled details of his latest gangster pic -- his first in nine years.

Dishing it out: Comedian and film director Takeshi Kitano shows off a dish he designed for Christmas at a promotional event Wednesday in Tokyo's Ginza district.

Chuck Wilson, 63, is a fitness trainer. But he was - and arguably still is - far more famous as a funny foreigner who speaks in a defiantly casual and blunt manner to TV personality bigwigs.

Funny yet touching, unpredictable yet brilliant, Beat Takeshi Kitano is a multifaceted and prolific artist that has captivated the Japanese public.

Takeshi Kitano has announced a return to the gang genre that first brought his international recognition with a new as-yet-untitled pic.

I'm not so sure that pig isn't pretty damned jazzed to be able to slam a human into a wall or something for a change.

UTV World Movies celebrates the works of feted Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano in 'In-focus' for the next two weeks.

A few years ago the great Takeshi Kitano directed himself in Zatoichi, a masterly action movie based on a series of popular novels about a blind itinerant masseur and master swordsman who conceals his blade in his walking stick.

Actors who direct and star in their own films may be motivated by something other than vanity, but they usually manage to make themselves look cool - or at least cooler than they would have if someone else had been in the director's chair.

UTV World Movies will telecast 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano's 'Sonatine,' a Japanese film, today, 8.30 p.m. Takeshi Kitano, who directs this story of the last days of a tough Tokyo gangster, also plays the lead in the film.