Takeshi Kitano
Japanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947) · Japan · Directors
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
Broken RageFilm, Director, Writer2023
Takeshi's Castle JapanSeries2021
Asakusa KidFilm, Writer2019
Idaten: Tokyo Olympics StorySeries, 古今亭志生2018The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with RosetteAward
Kiseki taiken! UnbelievableSeries, 2018Storyteller
Why Are We Creative?Film, 20182016
While the Women Are SleepingFilm, Sahara2014
オモクリ監督～O－Creator's TV Show～Series2013Asian Film Award for Best DirectorAward2012
Beyond OutrageFilm, Director, Writer2008
Achilles and the TortoiseFilm, Director, Writer2007
Dots and LinesSeries, Jutaro Torikai2005
Takeshis'Film, Director, Writer2003Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best DirectorAwardSilver LionAward
MusashiSeries, 2003Munisai Shinmen
Battle Royale II: RequiemFilm, 2003Kitano2000
The Story of One CenturySeries
Battle RoyaleFilm, 2000Kitano1999Blue Ribbon Awards for Best ActorAwardBlue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAward1998
Tokyo EyesFilm, Yakusa1997Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAwardEuropean Film Award for Best Non-European FilmAwardGolden LionAward1996Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best DirectorAward1995
Getting Any?Film, Director, Writer1993
Today's Close-UpSeries, 出演1992Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAwardKitano fan kurabuSeries1991
A Scene at the SeaFilm, Director, Writer1989Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best NewcomerAward
Violent CopFilm, 1989Director, Writer1986Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting ActorAward1969
Go, Go Second Time VirginFilm, Gang Member1962
Golden Horse AwardsSeries1947Born18 January 1947Also in Deutsch
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SpotifyFilmography 40
BRBroken Rage
KUKubiAKAsakusa Kid
CKCitizen KitanoWCWhy Are We Creative?
GSGhost in the Shell
OCOutrage CodaWSWhile the Women Are Sleeping
RHRyuzo and the Seven Henchmen
MMMozu The Movie
TBTrespassing BergmanBOBeyond Outrage
OUOutrageATAchilles and the Tortoise
TSThe Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
TCTo Each His Own Cinema
GFGlory to the Filmmaker!TATakeshis'
BBBlood and Bones
IZIzo
ARArakimentari
ZAZatoichiBRBattle Royale II: Requiem
DODollsBRBattle Royale
BRBrother
KIKikujiro
TATabooTETokyo Eyes
FIFireworks
KRKids Return
JMJohnny MnemonicGAGetting Any?
GOGonin
SOSonatineASA Scene at the Sea
BPBoiling PointVCViolent Cop
MLMerry Christmas, Mr. LawrenceGVGo, Go Second Time Virgin192 credits on file
Television 20
TJTakeshi's Castle Japan
たけしのその時カメラは回っていたISIdaten: Tokyo Olympics StoryKUKiseki taiken! Unbelievable
たけしのこれがホントのニッポン芸能史OSオモクリ監督～O－Creator's TV Show～
日曜ゴールデンで何やってんだテレビDLDots and Lines
MXMXCMUMusashi
TCTakeshi's CastleTCThe Story of One CenturyTUToday's Close-Up
BTBeat Takeshi Presents TV Tackle
TCTakeshi's CastleGAGolden Horse AwardsAwards
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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 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.
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