― dave k, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Actually, in Japan he was always a stand-up comedian and TV host. He surprised a lot of people here when he started making films.
His son is actually a huge Momus fan, and we were supposed to meet for dinner recently, but I had to postpone it.
― Momus, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ryan, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think a loty of his stuff is over-rated - but Hana-bi and Sonatine are the best of a variable bunch.
― Pete, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― misterjones, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave k, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Kitano as blind swordsman? Musical numbers?! OMG WTF
― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― gobemouche, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 15 August 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
I kind of suspect that he's out of steam. Brother was mostly terrible, Dolls mostly got terrible notices (the reviews I trust most had little good to say about it)....
My favorite Kitano film is, by far, A Scene at the Sea.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:14 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
I finally saw 'Dolls' last night and while I was seriously considering turning it off for the first 45 minutes, I am now thinking of buying the DVD.Slightly corny and maybe over-aesthetic, but the four seasons across Japan angle somehow mesmerized me.
― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
I love this man so much.
― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Takeshis = awesome. totally baffled as to why this never got any decent US press and/or I never heard of it when it was released. It definitely has his unique stamp on it but it's like his version of Mulholland Drive/Inland Empire crossed with Taxi Driver/King of Comedy. Lots of beautiful imagery, clever editing, constant blending of fantasy with reality, a bit of a meta-commentary on celebrity, violence, and identity. Genius.
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
musical number with giant dancing caterpillar and DJ mixing/scratching a woman's breasts
endless scenes of takeshit repeatedly shooting every other character in the movie in various combinations
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
actors in multiple roles
Have his last three even made it to DVD in the US?
― Alex in SF, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Zatoichi definitely did... pretty sure about Kikujiro too, cuz I rented that from Lost Weekend. Lost Weekend did NOT have "Takeshis'" tho, and I had to order it from Amazon and it is definitely not a US release (box and menus are all in Japanese). Criminal this guy doesn't have US distro.
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
― max, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait I see he's already made two other films after this, as part of some trilogy
wow wtf
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i saw a theatrical adaptation of Dolls a few days ago. It was pretty good.
― Gukbe, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
God fucking damn, I remember when C4 screened some of his movies, it served as a pretty big intro into 'foreign' film. Its curious that no one could bother to screen his latest ones, apart from 'Zaitoichi'.
Was 'Dolls' given a cinematic screening over in the UK? Pretty sure none of these 'new' ones have...fuck changing fashions and all that blah.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 2 February 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the woman who wrote the stage version saw a screening of it in glasgow in 2002, though I don't know if that was a proper release or some one-off special.
― Gukbe, Monday, 2 February 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think Dolls was released at all here in the US. Basically if it doesn't involve him playing a yakuza, apparently no one in America cares.
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 February 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ach, i didn't know there were so many newer films of his I hadn't seen.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Monday, 2 February 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Watching Takeshis just now, this is good, going to track down the other two films in this trilogy.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Achilles and the Tortoise is a good film until Takeshi turns up half way through.
― zappi, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
love this guy
― Pre-Beatles Yoko Ono (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i really like the way he makes fun of his yakuza films in this when he shoots the cicadas and then his girlfriend on the Okinawa film set.
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
so he made another yakuza movie - just came out on DVD. anyone seen it?
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Takeshis is great, hilarious self-parody. how are the other two...? have found some of his comedies inexplicable, I'm just not familiar enough with the cultural references
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
takeshis is probably the best of his recent films. outrage is a bore, mostly.
his great films were all made 1990–94, basically. to me it's a downhill slide from there, with a few films (fireworks, kikujiro) much better than the others.
scene at the sea and boiling point 4eva.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
i think getting any is hilarious even without understanding all of the references of japanese popular culture. and i don't find it as anomolous as most critics do -- they saw it as this art-film guy making a zucker-abrahams-zucker movie or something. but i see a lot of stylistic and thematic traits in common with e.g. boiling point and sonatine.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 17 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
not really gonna disagree with this, fireworks and kikujiro def best of the "later period" I guess. altho I did think zatoichi was a lot of fun.
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
'outrage' is pretty great, still retains a lot of the humor from his films but it's downplayed a bit (and the quieter, peaceful passages from something like 'sonatine' or 'fireworks' are gone) and the viciousness is amped up a lot. some pretty gruesome shit, and also this isn't a movie for those who fear going to the dentist. i did like the super-cruel "joke" played on one of the lead characters near the end when he's just "going for a ride."
― sug ones (omar little), Friday, 16 November 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Outrage" was pretty solid, although a little more monotonous and one-note than some of his more nuanced yakuza outings. at a certain point I got tired of yet another meeting of guys in suits that ends with someone being beaten up/shot/tortured. Yakuzas sure take a lot of meetings. Anyone seen the sequel?
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
I really liked Beyond Outrage, haven't seen the first one. It's nice and slow and methodical, until finally it explodes. Filmed really good, lots of great scenes and shots.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
his films always look great. he has a penchant for making Japan look/feel like a very quiet, lonely place
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.japantrends.com/japan-trends/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/takeshi-kitano-beat-yuriko-koike-donald-trump-4.jpg
― nomar, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
Haha
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 23 September 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
there's something terrifingly real about takeshi kitano's trump pic.twitter.com/S8QxlBXCDr— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) September 8, 2016
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 September 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Watching “Beyond Outrage” now. (I watched the first one Sunday.)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
The crooked police detective in these movies is such a slimy dick
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I like the Outrage films. Very by the numbers yakuza stuff but it works.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 4 August 2021 10:15 (two years ago) link
i should watch them. theyre not particularly highly rated. feel like takeshi used to have a lot of "world cinema" cred and has sort of faded - starting with takeshis
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Watching the third one now.
It’s astonishing how much really dumb mistakes fuel the action in these movies, just what seems like total amateur hour stuff from people who should know better
But that’s how real life is too right
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
Crosses, double crosses, damn
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
Maybe it’s dumb to talk yakuza business in bars and restaurants, dudes
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
yeah, keep it to the scruffy looking office buildings that you own perhaps for tax reasons?
Don't think there's much in the Outrage series for world cinema fans to enjoy frankly, it's genre cinema for genre fans, while his 90's yakuza stuff always had an artsier vibe. I would judge decline of interest to have started with his US film Brother?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 August 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
i like to think Takeshi just doesn't care
― i wish i had cuck feet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 August 2021 10:35 (two years ago) link
It’s hard for me to compare these to other Japanese cinema because I haven’t seen much up to now. (And these are the first yakuza movies I’ve ever seen.)
The frost two Outrage movies are on Kanopy and I stumbled on them over the weekend while fishing for something unknown to watch.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
Oh, I'm certain he doesn't! Sucks for us that it's more difficult to access his stuff tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 August 2021 11:25 (two years ago) link
oh yeah very much so
― i wish i had cuck feet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 5 August 2021 12:07 (two years ago) link
oh yeah, he definitely doesnt care, and more power to him.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 August 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
Now, “Hana-bi”.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 August 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link