Takeshi Kitano — Actor (42)
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Makoto-chan (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
まことちゃん
director: Tsutomu Shibayama actor: Junji Chiba / Takeshi Kitano …
other title: まことちゃん
A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.
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Erotic Liaisons (1992) WikiData IMDb TMDB
エロティックな関係
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Rie Miyazawa / Yuya Uchida …
other title: Les Liaisons Érotiques / Erotic Liasons …
A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists.
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Demon (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB
夜叉
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Ken Takakura / Yuko Tanaka …
other title: Yasha / Le Démon …
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
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Takeshi's Castle Japan (2023) IMDb TMDB
風雲！たけし城
actor: Takeshi Kitano / Hayato Tani …
other title: Takeshi's Castle / Takeshi : À l'assaut du château (Japon) …
Worldwide sensation Takeshi's Castle returns after 34 years! Popular games are revived on a larger scale and new, terrifying obstacles appear one after another. The lord of the castle, Beat Takeshi, entrusts BANANAMAN to protect it. Subaru Kimura is the attack force's new leader. The elite team gathers to bring down the revived Takeshi's Castle. The greatest battle in history begins!
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The Dump Truck Rascal (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
ダンプ渡り鳥
director: Ikuo Sekimoto actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: ダンプ渡り鳥 / Danpu wataridori …
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
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Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me (2008) IMDb TMDB
草間彌生~わたし大好き~
director: Takako Matsumoto actor: Yayoi Kusama / Takeshi Kitano
other title: 草間彌生~わたし大好き~
Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her work comes to life, one can witness the essence of her art as it wells up in the conflict between life, death, and love.
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Arakimentari (2004) WikiData IMDb Douban NeoDB
Arakimentari
director: Travis Klose actor: Nobuyoshi Araki / Björk …
A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.
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The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008) IMDb TMDB
ギララの逆襲 洞爺湖サミット危機一発
director: Minoru Kawasaki actor: Natsuki Kato / Kazuki Kato …
other title: Monster X gegen den G8-Gipfel / ギララの逆襲 洞爺湖サミット危機一発
When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer Space -- returns to ravage the Japanese countryside and threaten the world leaders. Military strikes prove futile against the beast, but a reporter learns that one rural community possesses a strange ritual that might influence the creature. Minoru Kawasaki directs this campy satire.
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A Legend of Turmoil (1992) IMDb TMDB
修羅の伝説
director: Seiji Izumi actor: Akira Kobayashi / Takanori Jinnai …
other title: 修羅の伝説
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
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Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) IMDb TMDB
ゆけゆけ二度目の処女
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Mimi Kozakura / Michio Akiyama …
other title: Su su per la seconda volta vergine / Vai, Vai, Virgem Pela Segunda Vez …
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
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Blood and Bones (2004)
血と骨
director: Yōichi Sai actor: Takeshi Kitano / Hirofumi Arai …
other title: Blood and bones / 血と骨
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌
director: Kenta Fukasaku / Kinji Fukasaku actor: Shugo Oshinari / Ai Maeda …
other title: Battle Royale II - Requiem / Battle Royale II …
It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of "teamwork", the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.
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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Johnny Mnemonic
director: Robert Longo actor: Keanu Reeves / Dina Meyer …
other title: Kureren / Johnny Mnemonic: O Fugitivo do Futuro …
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
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Outrage Coda (2017)
アウトレイジ 最終章
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: 长尾卓磨 / Takeshi Kitano …
other title: Outrage 3 / アウトレイジ 最終章 …
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.