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Takeshi Kitano

September 2021

  • Robert De Niro in Casino.

    Ranked
    The 30 best mobster movies – ranked!

    Ahead of the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark hitting cinemas, here are 30 organised crime flicks you must see before you sleep with the fishes

May 2021

  • Audacious … Johnny Mnemonic.

    Johnny Mnemonic review – Keanu test-drives early Matrix prototype

    Keanu Reeves is in impeccably robotic form as a data courier on the run in this 1995 adaptation of William Gibson’s cyberpunk story set in 2021

July 2017

  • Suburbicon film still

    George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon jostle for Oscar advantage in Venice line-up

    Damon stars in two of the Lido’s big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!

September 2012

  • James Franco at Venice film festival

    Venice film festival 2012: day five and six – in pictures

  • Japanese director Kitano signs autographs

    Venice film festival 2012: day four and five – in pictures

May 2010

  • Takeshi Kitano

    Cannes film festival: Takeshi Kitano, director

    Takeshi Kitano: My memories of Cannes? Interview, interview, screening, interview
  • Xavier Beauvois with a T-shirt supporting Roman Polanski at Cannes

    Cannes film festival: Polanski and Biutiful people

    Day 7 at the 63rd Cannes film festival and the frenetic round of screenings, schmoozings and erm, Polanski protest is at fever pitch. Here are the key pictures from the Croisette

    • Cannes film festival: Countdown to Zero, The Housemaid, A Screaming Man and Outrage

    • Cannes film festival 2010: the halfway point

    • Cannes 2010: the directors in competition this year

March 2010

  • Takeshi

    Art beat: Takeshi Kitano takes over Paris

  • takeshi kitano knitting machine

    Takeshi Kitano: one original gangster

February 2010

  • Scene from Takeshis' (2005)

    Takeshis'

  • Scene from Takeshis' (2005)

    Biographical dictionary of film
    Takeshi Kitano

    David Thomson

August 2008

  • Film blog
    Kitano's lost sense of direction

    Takeshi Kitano used to know his way around cinematic set pieces like no one else, but now the director seems to have forgotten which pieces go where

March 2004

  • Zatoichi

    Peter Bradshaw: Despite the bizarre mix of ingredients, it all looks like the simple result of Kitano's boisterous mission to entertain - by any means necessary

November 2003

  • The world's 40 best directors

    The Hollywood blockbuster may be in crisis, but the art of the cinema is as healthy as ever. Our panel of critics picks out the film-makers who are leading the way.

September 2003

  • Takeshi beats field in Toronto

    Japanese Film maker, stand-up comedian and actor, Takeshi Kitano took top honours at the Toronto Film Festival last night

June 2003

  • Lord of the strings

    Philip French: At one particularly ravishing moment the young couple, roped together, cross a high footbridge over a river in an autumnal forest of red-leafed trees. The shot took my breath away

May 2003

  • 'You can't tell what I'm going to do next'

    He's been a stand-up comic and a poet, an actor and a director. He's known for his violent yakuza thrillers and yet his latest film is a whimsical allegory about dolls. Brushing aside the entourage, Sean Clarke asks the real Takeshi Kitano to please stand up

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