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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Beat Takeshi

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Beat Takeshi at IFFR

  • 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,…
  • Outrage

    Kitano Takeshi | 109' | Japan | None

    It often happens with great masters. At the end of their career, their work gets increasingly scarce and minimal. So too in the case of…