Takeshi Kitano — Actor (32)
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
戦場のメリークリスマス
7.9 (9 ratings) director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: David Bowie / Tom Conti …
other title: Furyo / Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence …
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
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Kikujiro (1999) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
菊次郎の夏
8.1 (14 ratings) director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Yusuke Sekiguchi …
other title: L'estate di Kikujiro / O Verão de Kikujiro …
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Ghost in the Shell
5.7 (7 ratings) director: Rupert Sanders actor: Scarlett Johansson / Takeshi Kitano …
other title: Ghost in the Shell - Agente do Futuro / Ghost in the Shell: El alma de la máquina
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
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Zatoichi (2003) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
座頭市
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Tadanobu Asano …
other title: Zatoichi: Den blinde samurai / Zatoichi - Der blinde Samurai …
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
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Trespassing Bergman (2013) [Movie] Douban IMDb
Trespassing Bergman
director: Jane Magnusson / Hynek Pallas actor: Tomas Alfredson / Woody Allen …
other title: Descubriendo a Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)
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Fireworks (1997) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
HANA-BI
7.7 (10 ratings) director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Kayoko Kishimoto …
other title: Hana-Bi - Fiori di fuoco / Hana-Bi - Fogo de Artifício …
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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Brother (2000) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Brother
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Omar Epps …
other title: Irmão / Aniki, mon frère
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
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Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
アキレスと亀
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Kanako Higuchi …
other title: Achille e la tartaruga / Achilles und die Schildkröte …
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
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Violent Cop (1989) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
その男、凶暴につき
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Maiko Kawakami …
other title: Violent cop / その男、凶暴につき
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
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Outrage (2010) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
アウトレイジ
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Kippei Shiina …
other title: Ultraje: Muito Além / アウトレイジ …
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.
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Boiling Point (1990) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
３－４Ｘ１０月
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Yûrei Yanagi / Yuriko Ishida …
other title: Boiling Point - I nuovi gangster / ３－４Ｘ１０月 …
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theo Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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No More Comics! (1986) [Movie] TMDB
コミック雑誌なんかいらない！
director: Yojiro Takita actor: Yuya Uchida / Yumi Asou …
other title: コミック雑誌なんかいらない！
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
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Tokyo Eyes (1998) [Movie] TMDB
Tokyo Eyes
director: Jean-Pierre Limosin actor: Shinji Takeda / Hinano Yoshikawa …
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
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Izo (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
IZO
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuya Nakayama / Kaori Momoi …
other title: IZO / Izo - The world can never be changed …
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Beyond Outrage (2012) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
アウトレイジ ビヨンド
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Ryo Kase …
other title: Outrage Beyond / アウトレイジ ビヨンド …
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.
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Gonin (1995) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Gonin
director: Takashi Ishii actor: Koichi Sato / Masahiro Motoki …
other title: 血光光五人帮 / The Five
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.