Takeshi Kitano
3 titles · japanese contemporary
Kitano directs as Takeshi Kitano and stars as Beat Takeshi: a stone-faced man who is suddenly, briefly violent. In Fireworks, a detective whose wife has leukaemia takes desperate steps to put things right. Kikujiro sends a loud, useless man with a boy looking for his mother. Outrage is a yakuza war with bodies piling up.
Signature
- Comic timing from his years as a TV comedian.
- Kitano's own paintings in Fireworks.
- Blue colour and scores by Joe Hisaishi.
- Tenderness with children and the dying.
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