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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Otomo
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2011
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Vintage Japanese monster movies and contemporary politics are both given a poke in the ribs in this satiric comedy from...
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2008
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Director and screenwriter Takeshi Kitano charts the strange career arc of a struggling artist in this offbeat comedy-drama....
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2008
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At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally...
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Director
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2007
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A self-referential comedy that serves as prolific Japanese filmmaker Takeshi "Beat" Kitano's latest attempt at "creative...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2007
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Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's most famous and notorious photographer. In a culture where complete female nudity is frowned upon...
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2005
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In the latest film by Japanese television comic-turned-cinema auteur Takeshi Kitano, a soft-spoken convenience store cashier...
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Director, Screenwriter, Beat Takeshi
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2005
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Master filmmaker Takeshi Kitano returns behind the camera for the first time since his indifferently received...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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2004
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Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Zatôichi/Ichi
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2004
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Yoichi Sai directs Takeshi "Beat" Kitano in this adaptation of the popular Yang Seok-il novel concerning a violent, ruthless...
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Kim Sun-pei
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2004
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2003
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Directed by Makoto Shinozaki, Asakusa Kid follows a fictional episode in the little known area of old fashioned Japanese...
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Book Author
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2002
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In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious...
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2001
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After a 13-year absence, partially due to a life-threatening stroke, master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima returns to the silver...
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Capt. Toshizo Hijikata
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2000
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Internationally acclaimed director and Japanese media phenomenon Takeshi Kitano follows up his well-regarded Kikujiro with...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Yamamoto
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2000
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Kikujiro
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2000
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In this French-Japanese drama, Tokyo cop Roy (Tetta Sugimoto) is on the "Four Eyes" case, searching for punk K...
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Yakuza
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1998
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Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, comedian, television star, author, and all-around renaissance man Takeshi "Beat" Kitano stars...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Murakawa
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1998
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter, Nishi
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1997
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Following his 1995 brush with death in the form of a motorcycle accident, actor/comedian/writer/director Takeshi Kitano spins...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1996
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Get Carter meets Heidegger in this slick, two-fisted gangster epic brimming with furtive sex and shocking violence. The film...
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1995
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In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve...
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Takahashi
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1995
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Takeshi Kitano made an international name for himself for directing films of great emotional subtlety and technical...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1994
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Kazuo (Masato Hagiwara) is not taken in the by phony miracles put on by the religious group he encounters during one of its...
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Screen Story
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1993
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Takeshi Kitano -- who, along with directing some of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s, appears on four television shows,...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1992
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Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano directs, writes, and acts in this gangster comedy about the Yakuza, the notorious criminal...
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Director, Uehara
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1991
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Shintaro Katsu took his final bow as Zatoichi, the nomadic blind swordsman, in this martial arts action saga from Japan....
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1989
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Television comedian, author of a number of books, and star in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawerence, Takeshi Kitano...
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Director, Detective Azuma
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1989
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Comic Magazine is a powerhouse reenactment of a 1985 ethics scandal that rocked the Japanese journalistic world. Pop star...
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1987
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The Count
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1986
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1985
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In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member, some of the traits of the...
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1985
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With a story that many could readily understand, this film is about a divorced policeman whose salary does not expand far...
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1983
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In...
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1983
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