Takeshi Kitano

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Takeshi Kitano (born 18 January 1947) is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, and writer.

Although he is best known as a comedian and television presenter in his native Japan, he is internationally recognized almost exclusively for his work as a filmmaker.

Beat Takeshi is almost exclusively identified by the stage name, with the exception of his appearances as a film producer. Kitano made it to fame in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beats before going solo and becoming one of the country's top comedy performers.

He made his directorial debut with Violent Cop (1989) after several small acting roles, earning international recognition for Sonatine (1993).

He was not widely recognized in Japan until Hana-bi claimed the Golden Lion in 1997.

Kitano completed his Outrage Crime trilogy in October 2017 with the introduction of Outrage Coda, gaining numerous accolades with Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa, who has once dubbed him "the true successor" to influential filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Many of Kitano's films are dramas about yakuza gangsters or the police.

Kitano is often described by critics as using an acting style that is reminiscent of near-stasis or a camera style that threatens near-stasis.

Many of his films portray a bleak worldview while still showing humour and admiration for their characters.

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Life and career

Takeshi Kitano was born in Adachi, Tokyo, with two older brothers and an older sister. His father was a house painter, with Kitano revealing that he lived like a yakuza, while his mother, a strict disciplinarian and educator who worked in a factory, was a strict disciplinarian and educator. The children in his working-class neighborhood aspired to baseball players and yakuza, with some of his neighbors being the latter. Kitano went to Meiji University and studied electronics before dropping out at the age of 19. In 1972, he came from Asakusa to become a comedian. When working as an elevator operator at Asakusa France-za strip joint, he became an apprentice of Senzaburo Fukami, the theater's MC, and eventually the theater's MC.

He and his colleague Nir Kaneko formed a comedy team in the 1970s (also known as Kiyoshi Kaneko). They took on Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi, referring to themselves as "The Two Beats" in some cases. There are usually a lot of back-and-forth banter between the two performers in this sort of duo comedy in Japan. Against Takeshi's eccentric guy (boke), Kiyoshi played the straight guy (tsukkomi). They appeared on television for the first time in 1976 and gained national recognition, propelling their show to the national stage. Kitano's content, which was much more risqué than conventional manzai, was the reason for their fame. The elderly, the disabled, the poor, children, women, the ugly, and the stupid were often the mockers of his comedies. Complaints to the broadcaster resulted in the censorship of some of Kitano's jokes and the editing of offensive dialogue. In a video interview, Kitano said he was refused access to the NHK studios for five years for showing his body during a performance when it was strictly forbidden.

Despite the fact that Two Beats was one of the most popular acts of its time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kitano decided to go solo and the pair was dissolved. Kitano is said to be one of Japan's "Big Three" television comedians, along with Sanma Akashiya and Tamori. (owarai tarento) In his 1996 film Kids Return, there are some autobiographical elements relating to his manzai career. Beat Kiyoshi appears in Kitano's 1999 film Kikujiro as "Man at the Bus Stop." Kitano had already established himself as a popular television host. In the 1980s, Takeshi's Castle was a game show hosted by Kitano, featuring slapstick-style physical competitions. It was broadcast in the United States years under the heading Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, with Takeshi renamed "Vic Romano" in honor of the tournament's years ago.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him playing a gangster or other unpleasant characters. Kitano said he would be invited to drink with yakuza, who would inform him of the major crime bosses. Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas (cast as a stern POW camp sergeant during World War II opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and David Bowie). Kitano said he was content with his role and snuck into a screening of the film to see how the audience would recognize him as a serious actor rather than a comedian. When he appeared on screen, he was shocked, but filmmakers promised to stick to more realistic and dark characters.

Kitano was an advisor and partial designer on Family Computer's Takeshi no Chsenj (translated as Takeshi's Challenge) in 1986. He was the first Japanese celebrity to actively contribute to the creation of a video game and appeared in several commercials promoting the product's launch. It was ranked first in Famitsu magazine's kusoge (shit game) rankings, owing to the game's popularity and confusing gameplay mechanics, and it was often ranked as one of the worst video games of all time. Takeshi no Chsenj and its expansion was the subject of the first episode of GameCenter CX, an Osaka game variety show hosted by Osaka comedian Shinya Arino.

Asakusa Kid, 1988, published a memoir. He has also published a number of novels and other books that have been translated into French. He appeared in Violent Cop with several other dramatic roles, mainly comedic. Because of Kitano's television commitments, director Kinji Fukasaku stepped down over scheduling conflicts with Kitano. Kitano's career as a writer began heavily rewrote the script, and this marked the beginning of Kitano's career as a filmmaker.

Boiling Point (3-4X10 October) was both a screenwriter and director of Kitano's second film as director and first as screenwriter. Mark Schilling characterized it as the film in which Kitano defined his style with long takes, minimal camera movement, brief chat, sly humor, and sudden violence.

A Scene at the Sea, Kitano's third film, was released in 1991. It came after a deaf garbage collector who is determined to learn how to surf after locating a broken surfboard. Kitano's more nuanced, romantic side came to the fore here, as well as his trademark deadpan style. Several nominations and awards, including Best Film at the coveted Blue Ribbon Awards, followed the film. It began as a long-running collaboration with composer Joe Hisaishi that would run until 2002.

Although Sonatine, 1993, did poorly in Japan, it was highly acclaimed in Europe when it was shown at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Kitano, a Tokyo yakuza who is sent by his manager to Okinawa to help end a gang war there, is a Tokyo yakuza. He is sick of gangster life, and when he discovers that the whole mission is a ruse, he accepts what comes with open arms. At the 1994 London Film Festival, all four of his films were shown.

Kitano was involved in a motorscooter accident in August 1994 and sustained partial paralysis of the right-side of his face. Kitano later said that the incident was a "unconscious suicide attempt," as Dan Edwards said. Kitano made the Kids Return in 1996, a few months after his recovery.

The 1995 release of Getting Any?

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Kitano returned to his comedy roots after the shooting was filmed before the disaster. This Airplane!-like collection of comedic scenes, all centered around a Walter Mitty-type character trying to have sex in a car, received no acknowledgement in Japan. Much of the film parodyizes popular Japanese culture, such as Ultraman or Godzilla, as well as the Zatoichi character, which Kitano himself will continue to play eight years later. Kitano appeared in William Gibson's 1995 Johnny Mnemonic film version, credited by the mononym "Takeshi," but his on-screen time was much reduced for the American version of the film.

Kitano took up painting after his scooter crash. His books have been published in books, included in gallery shows, and adorn the front pages of several of his films' soundtrack albums. In his most critically acclaimed film, 1997's Hana-bi, his paintings were prominently displayed. Hana-bi cemented his international fame as one of Japan's top contemporary filmmakers for years, although it had already Kitano's biggest audience had been the international arthouse crowd. Despite the fact that it was not a big success financially, it received the Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival. Kitano himself said it wasn't until he was nominated as a leading director in Japan that he was accepted; before that, his films were thought of as the hobby of a well-known comedian.

Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo, in which he played Captain Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi, was one of his finest acting appearances. Kikujiro, a kidne'er-do well crook who was released in 1999 and named after his father, was a semi-comedy starring Kitano as a young boy missing his mother and embarking on a series of misadventures with him.

He hosted Koko ga Hen da yo Nihonjin (English translation, This doesn't make sense, Japanese people!) It was a Japanese television show that was broadcast weekly from 1998 to 2002, a talk show on which a large number of Japanese-speaking foreigners from around the world debate current topics in Japanese society. He hosts Unbelievable, which was revived in 2001, and Beat Takeshi's TV Tackle, a weekly television show. The television Tackle is a sort of panel discussion between entertainers and politicians about controversial current events. Sekai Marumie TV ("The World Exposed"), a weekly collection of many interesting video clips from around the world, with many focusing on the peculiarities of other countries. On this show, he plays a juvenile idiot, insulting the guests, and generally wearing strange costumes during the performance.

Kitano played a similar role in the infamous 2000 Japanese blockbuster Battle Royale, in which a group of teenagers is randomly selected each year to beat each other on a deserted island.

His 2000 film Brother was supposed to be a hit in the world. In Los Angeles, it starred Kitano as a deposed and exiled Tokyo yakuza establishing a drug empire, with the help of a local gangster played by Omar Epps. The film, on the other hand, received a tepid foreign reaction. Despite being in Japan, Hana-bi did better financially than Hana-bi. Kitano directed but not acting in a romantic drama with three separate stories about undying love, and was loosely based on a bunraku play.

Kitano's response to the film Brother and the film Dolls was followed by a series of sympathetic reviews from the media in the United States. Criticism in Europe and Asia was less effective, but many commentators were not as generous as they had in his previous films. Many of these dissenters were silenced by Zatichichi, directed by and starring Kitano. Zatichi, Kitano's biggest box office success in Japan, garnered a slew of awards both nationally and abroad, including the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, with a modern spin on Shintaro Katsu's long-running film and TV series. Kitano admitted that he was approached by others to produce the film and, as a result of this, he followed the traditional filmmaking process in order to please them and produce a pure-entertainment film.

Kitano worked at the Graduate School of Visual Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, from 2005 to 2008.

Takeshis', Kitano's first film in his surrealist autobiographical film, was released in Japan in November 2005. In 2007, his second surrealist autobiographical film Glory to the Filmmaker was released. (Appearing as Beat Takeshi) and a third in 2008, titled Achilles and the Tortoise. Kitano appeared in a number of other television productions and smaller projects between these films. He appeared in Dots and Lines (a TV mini-series) in 2007 as Jtar Torikai. Kitano appeared in To Every Their Own Cinema as the projectionist (in the segment "Rencontre unique") as Beat Takeshi and in the TV series Wada Satsujin Jiken, as the projectionist (in the segment "Rencontre unique") in 2007. He was a voice over in The Monster X Strikes Back: Take-Majin, a heralded monster based on Kitano, in 2008.

The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris held a one-man show on January 11th displaying his drawings and installations. A 12-hour loop of his duties as a TV host was played in a basement.

The 2010 Cannes Film Festival featured Kitano's Outrage, which was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He confessed to doing something different for Outrage by including a lot of dialogue, stepping back as the lead character to create an ensemble work, and having the feeling of a nature documentary watching the characters murder each other. At the 69th Venice International Film Festival, a sequel to 2012's Outrage Beyond was shown in competition. He appeared in Yasuo Furuhata's 2012 film, Dearest. Takeshi Kitano said in September 2012 that the producers wanted him to make a third Outrage film based on the box office's schedule. Kitano received the Best Director award for Outrage Beyond at the 7th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong on March 7, 2013.

In an interview with John Bleasdale, Kitano announced that he had announced plans for a sequel to Outrage Beyond and an unidentified personal film project on August 10, 2013. "Ideally what would happen is this," Kitano said, "Outrage Beyond is a big hit" and my director encourages me to make one film I really want to do and then come back to the sequel after I've made the film I really want to do."

Kitano will appear in the SEGA video game Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, beginning in September 2015. Kitano's first contact with the video game industry in 30 years after the introduction of Takeshi no Chsenj in 1986.

Takeshi appeared in the live action version of the manga Ghost in the Shell, marking his return to American cinema nearly 20 years after Johnny Mnemonic in 1995. Despite having expressed his disapproving of anime and manga in the past, he accepted the role because "even though this new piece of entertainment is completely different from the ones I've produced," the actor says. I'm excited to see how the film turns out.

Kitano unveiled the third and final installment in the popular Outrage series titled Outrage Coda in 2017.

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