Takeshi Kitano — Director (17)
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.
Kids Return (1996) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
キッズ・リターン
9.2 (5 ratings) director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Ken Kaneko / Masanobu Ando
other title: Os Rapazes Regressam / キッズ・リターン
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
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.
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.
Dolls (2002) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
ドールズ
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Miho Kanno / Hidetoshi Nishijima
other title: ドールズ
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.