Kitano Takeshi

Kitano Takeshi at IFFR

• Sonatine

  Ganster parody in which Beat Takeshi withdraws to an island. His gang gets bored. By the maker of VIOLENT COP and BOILING POINT.

  • main programme
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  Kikujiro no natsu

  Masao (9) has the holiday of his life in a funny, occasionally absurd, but always warm comedy. With and by a Kitano who excels himself.

  • no cherry blossoms
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  Takeshi Kitano, l’imprévisible

  Kitano, Japan’s greatest living film-maker, talking to Hasumi, the most respected film academic in Japan. The impudent film-maker is actually shy in t

  • no cherry blossoms
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  Jam Session – Kikujiro no natsu koshiki kaizokuban

  The formidable Kitano Takeshi in the ‘making-of’ of his last film Kikujiro. Plus an unforgettable encounter with the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien.

  • no cherry blossoms
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  Takeshis’

  Kitano does what he likes. After the success of Zatoïchi, he presents a subversive exercise that holds the middle line – in as far as there is a middl

  • Kings & Aces
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  Achilles and the Tortoise

  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 films, but also a d

  • Spectrum

• Brother

  Violent, but also funny kamikaze parable about a Japanese Yakuza (Takeshi), who visits his brother in the USA and en passant tramples through the unde

  • main programme features
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  Glory to the Filmmaker!

  Kitano is here an unbridled satirist. He dares to ridicule the great film maker Kitano. Silent like a clown in a State Circus, Kitano opens all the re

  • Kings & Aces
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  Dolls

  The latest Kitano cuts back and forth between three romantic tragedies that are set in an only slightly stylised version of today’s Japan, with plenty

  • main programme features
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  Zatoichi

  Takeshi Kitano plays the famous Blind Swordsman and hits the entertainment high spot without losing any of his creative élan. Witty, with brilliantly

  • main programme features