Takeshi Kitano — Playwright (18)
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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.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Gina Clayton …
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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Dolls (2002) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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.
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Fireworks (1997)
HANA-BI
★ 8.1 (15 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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Kids Return (1996)
キッズ・リターン
★ 9.0 (6 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.
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Kikujiro (1999)
菊次郎の夏
★ 7.7 (20 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.