How the Bank Robbery Scene in ‘Hana-Bi’ Discretely Disrupts Order: Japanese pop-cultural icon Takeshi Kitano possibly had the most interesting career of any celebrity you can think of. Starting out his career…
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“Beat” Takeshi Kitano is mostly known to the international audience as the director of the “Outrage trilogy”, the new rebooted Zatoichi which also starred him, as well as a host of other…
“Takeshi Kitano’s Golden Lion winner Hana-Bi (‘Fireworks’, 1997) is in many ways the perfect amalgamation of the film-maker’s humanist expression and unconventional formal tendencies.” Takeshi Kitano has been a ubiquitous figure in…
“I’m obsessed by my curiosity. If you ask me what I really want, I say surprise me, please surprise me. Creativity means bringing together two things that have nothing to do with…