Beat Takeshi
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Beat Takeshi at IFFR
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Many happy returns
Tenma Toshihiro | 94' | Japan | International premiere
Comedy in which Beat Takashi (SONATINE), as the manipulator of a new sect, seeks a new figure head. -
Achilles and the Tortoise
Kitano Takeshi | 119' | Japan | None
Kitano is not afraid of anything. Not even of making a fool of himself. He’s not only a famous comedian, a great maker of gangster… -
Battle Royale
Fukasaku Kinji | 113' | Japan | European premiere
Violent variation on Survivor; as answer to youthful rebellion, every year a school class is put on a desert island and pitted against each other… -
Battle Royale II : Requiem
Fukasaku Kenta, Fukasaku Kinji | 134' | Japan | -
Three years after the brutal slaughter in Battle Royale, adults again try to keep kids down using pure violence. This time a school class has… -
Zatoichi
Kitano Takeshi | 116' | Japan | -
Takeshi Kitano plays the famous Blind Swordsman and hits the entertainment high spot without losing any of his creative élan. Witty, with brilliantly -
News
Kitano Takeshi | 5' | Japan | European premiere
Sardonic short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. Two cops in a car mull over some evidence. -
Asa
Kitano Takeshi | 4' | Japan | European premiere
Faux-sentimental short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. He plays a pensioner who takes a walk in the p -
Izo
Miike Takashi | 128' | Japan | -
Izo is the incarnation of denial, the opposite of perfect Japan, in the form of a reincarnated samurai who murders his way to his mother,…
