Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano offered a surprisingly candid admission about his Venice Film Festival appearance for “Broken Rage” ...

The suspect allegedly smashed Kitano’s car several times with a pickax, demanding Takeshi get out of the car. By The Associated Press Tokyo police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked a car ...

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 ...

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”), ...

"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 ...

Japanese director Takeshi Kitano has provided the artwork for the poster of the 2024 edition of Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight, running alongside the main festival from May 15 to 26.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Kitano will apparently play the founder and leader of Section 9, ...

It happens every time Takeshi Kitano plays a scowling, gun-toting man who risks his life for justice and honor: Film critics in the United States and Europe compare him to Clint Eastwood. The ...

The ceremony will take place in Paris next Tuesday. Takeshi Kitano has taken home laurels from film festivals the world over. As of next week, he can lay claim to an even higher honor: France’s Legion ...

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 ...