Takeshi Kitano
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)
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- Directors rank#172
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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.
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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 Kurosa…
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- The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
- Asian Film Award for Best Director
- Silver Lion
- Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director
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