For many they were baseball players, but for filmmaker Takeshi Kitano it was the local yakuza ... image once he started acting in Japanese TV films in the 1980's, preferring to take on more ...

In the near future, industrial espionage of information systems is so rife, couriers have the information transmitted into implants in their brain that can hold gigabytes of information.

It approaches the level of a variety show skit ... this became a trial piece for Kitano Takeshi/Beat Takeshi, based on his understanding of TV as a comedic veteran of the medium.

CINEMATIC CELEBRATION Legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano‘s samurai epic “Kubi” will open the sixth edition of London’s Queer East Festival on April 23 at BFI Southbank. The festival, running ...

who goes by the stage name Beat Takeshi. The attack took place as Kitano was leaving the building after finishing his news show “Shin Joho Seven Days Newscaster” broadcast live from 10 p.m ...

Nor does it try to, not that the director particularly cares, and neither should any of us, because the film that Takeshi Kitano actually delivered is all the more delightful. Promising a kind of ...

The story of “Kubi,” or “neck,” shows the 1582 ambush of Oda ... began his career as stand-up comedian Beat Takeshi before becoming a TV star. Kitano said he has seen the dark side of ...