Sunday Jun 7 | The Japan Times
It's so cool to play an oily toad
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.
Takeshi Kitano: a collection DVD review
Takeshi Kitano: a collection, DVD review Takeshi Kitano's world-view is dark but absurdist and unpredictablein this welcome set of releases.
Movie Review - Ooooo Fireworks
Have you ever flipped through the channels one day and ran across the television show MXC on the Spike channel? Yoshitaka Nishi, played by actor Takeshi Kitano, happens to be a very interesting character.
That summer's day, Kikujiro has one purpose - and that's to function as a grown-up escort to Masao , while the little boy attA empts to locate his mother.
Thinking Japanese: Carrie Cracknell on bringing a Takeshi Kitano film to a Scottish stage
THE TWO dancers are tied together at the waist by a red rope. Its length defines the circles in which they move, making them fight its restrictions.
Book 'Em: Alix Lambert Exposes "Crime"
Author Alix Lambert "My background is in the fine arts, and the book was about representing crime in the arts to its total extent..."                 Michael Buscemi "He started ...
In 'Brother', Beat Takeshi shows LA hoods Yakuza style
This movie is interesting. Very dry. Very understated, for all the violence. Beat Takeshi Kitano directed this movie, his first outside of Japan.
Wartime General Tojo stirs Japan at Christmas
Japan remembered World War II at Christmas time as acclaimed actor and director Takeshi Kitano starred in a television epic as General Hideki Tojo, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor.