Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in 1988 and previously filmed in 2002 by Makoto Shinozaki (also director of the 1999 Kitano documentary “Jam Session”), ...

In the early ’90s, Japan’s Takeshi “Beat” Kitano was on a roll, with a superb string of nuanced crime movies that stood in stark contrast to the good-vs.-evil bullet operas that were coming out of ...

TOKYO – Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of samurai in ways that mainstream movies have rarely done before, by portraying the homosexual, ...

Prime Streaming is releasing Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano's latest htiman crime comedy Broken Rage worldwide on February 13th. This is good news for fans of Japanese cinema and Kitano's ...

"If you work with us, we'll let you off the hook." Prime Video in Japan has revealed a trailer for Broken Rage, a unique Takeshi Kitano film ready for release on streaming in the next few months. This ...

But there’s still enough “Beat” in Kitano for him to retain his impish streak. In “The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi,” more so than any other Kitano film save for the little-known “Getting Any?,” a gag is ...

The poster is designed by acclaimed comic book artist Benjamin Marra. Today, New York independent distributor Film Movement Classics unveils the brand-new poster for Takeshi Kitano‘s 1990 film ...

Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese director/star of hardboiled yakuza thriller Outrage Beyond (sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams), is contemplating a third Outrage movie. The first Outrage film, which ...

Video games have their fair share of auteurs, a term that's often applied to Japanese game developers like Shigeru Miyamoto, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Hideo Kojima, Shinji Mikami, Fumito Ueda and Yoko Taro.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kitano’s new movie Kubi promises to do the same for samurai movie, and the bad news is that, though it really, really tries, it ...