# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takeshi-kitano
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:27:37.982Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/takeshi-kitano"
name: "Takeshi Kitano"
slug: "takeshi-kitano"
description: "In Japan, he's the comedian who dominated 1980s TV with brutal wit and 29% ratings. Everywhere else, he's the deadpan auteur who won Venice's top prize and made yakuza films that barely move until they explode."
tagline: "Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-01-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
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  country:  null
  category: 172
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Takeshi Kitano started as a strip-theater comic in Asakusa while studying at Meiji University, forming the duo Two Beat in 1973 and riding the comedy boom with black humor sharp enough to cut. By the 1980s he owned Japanese television—Oretachi Hyōkin-zoku and Takeshi's Castle made him inescapable. Nagisa Ōshima cast him in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence in 1983, opening the film door. He stepped behind the camera by accident in 1989 when Kinji Fukasaku dropped out of Violent Cop, then kept going. Hana-bi took the Golden Lion at Venice in 1997, making him the third Japanese director after Kurosawa and Inagaki to claim it. He closed his Outrage crime trilogy in 2017. His films—mostly yakuza dramas, steeped in stillness and sudden violence—earned him the label "true successor" to Kurosawa from critic Nagaharu Yodogawa. The style is unmistakable: long takes where nothing seems to happen, cuts that land after the damage is done, a bleak world softened by odd bursts of tenderness.