Takeshi Kitano — Actor (33)
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Takeshi's Castle Japan (2023) [TV] 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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie] 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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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
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) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData
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) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
アウトレイジ 最終章
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Toshiyuki Nishida …
other title: アウトレイジ 最終章 / Outrage 3 …
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.
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Takeshis' (2005) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
Takeshis'
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Kotomi Kyōno …
other title: Takeshis / 双面北野武 …
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.