Takeshi Kitano News

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's world-view is dark but absurdist and unpredictablein this welcome set of releases.

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.

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.

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 ...

This movie is interesting. Very dry. Very understated, for all the violence. Beat Takeshi Kitano directed this movie, his first outside of Japan.

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.