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	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi
		The contrast between the image of Beat Takeshi, TV clown in Japan and that of Kitano Takeshi, acclaimed movie director abroad is striking.
		Takeshi's use of crude material may have upset some of the older manzai purists but it was a huge hit on TV.
		Hosted by Takeshi, whose intelligent remarks are balanced with lurid gags, the show often highlights the huge gaps in attitudes, awareness and understanding between Japan and the rest of the world, even its closest neighbors.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/kitano_takeshi.shtml (1099 words)

	Beat Takeshi Kitano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Beating is striking more than once, in violence, beating a drum, etc. This is the originalmeaning of the word.
		In physics and sound, a beat isthe oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive anddestructive interference of the pressure waves.
		Beating is heard as apulsation in loudness of two nearby frequencies, f 1 and f 2, at the rate of
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/2933-beat%20takeshi%20kitano.html (310 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Column: Letter from Japan (#8)
		Takeshis’ is haphazard and undisciplined, a Tarantino-like buffet of references and mockery to earlier Kitano products, both from the director and his acting chops.
		Takeshis’ is the cinematic equivalent of a jargon-filled academic essay that seeks to obscure meaning through vaulted dialogue, for no other purpose than to make you feel like you are in the presence of a superior mind.
		Takeshis’ is sloppy, too, but it supplies the pop-pop of a gun for any meaningful dialogue, the substation of a bizarre caricature for intriguing characterization, and the impatience of a jump cut for a steady cinematic eye.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=44222 (1636 words)

	Takeshi Kitano
		At age nine, Takeshi and his siblings were given a present they would never forget, and which would influence Takeshi to take the path he had chosen for himself.
		Takeshi spent most of his childhood glued to the television box, where he developed his passion for entertainment, and stand-up comedy.
		Takeshi followed Violent Cop with "Boiling Point" (1990), an in-depth study of a life of a Yakuza, and the drama "Scene at the Sea" (1991).
	www.hkfilms.150m.com /Japanese/directors/takeshikitano.htm (995 words)

	The films of Beat Takeshi
		Takeshi Kitano got the nickname Beat from his days as a standup comedian, when he performed as one of the two Beats.
		Takeshi is the head of a yakuza gang that is sent to the island to settle a score with rival gangsters.
		The oyabun/kobun relationship is at the heart of the ritual of finger-severing: a gruesome rite of atonement in which the kobun presents his fingertip to the oyabun as an act of repentance.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/Beat_Takeshi.htm (1867 words)

	Takeshis' (JAPAN 2005)
		Beat's slick girlfriend (Kotomi Kyono) comments on the resemblance, which later leads the actor to reflect on what his doppelganger's life might actually be like.
		Meanwhile, the ordinary Takeshi returns to his humdrum life at the convenience store, finding time during his off-hours to audition for small parts, only to be met with rejection at each and every turn.
		As a cabbie, Takeshi finds himself taking on numerous passengers, including two sumo wrestlers and a young boy dressed up as a geisha (who previously appeared in Beat's storyline), as he tries to maneuver the taxi amidst a gaggle of accident victims strewn all over the road.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/takeshis.htm (827 words)

	TAKESHIS' - CANADIAN EDITION DVD
		Kitano is thus marking the difference between the devices of the director and the relatively passive objectification that is the primary definition of an actor--between the godhead inscrutable and the subject humiliated, as well as the eventual bleed-through between the roles actors assume and the mold into which perception forces them.
		Takeshis' is the very definition of solipsistic in that there is no other reality offered by the film than the one filtered through, or bounced against, Kitano.
		Yet Takeshis' is more complicated than a satire/excoriation of his own cult of personality, betraying a good dose of affection for his admirers along with a chiding discomfort with how arbitrary his ascension seems.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/takeshis.htm (591 words)

	TAKESHIS' - CANADIAN EDITION DVD
		Kitano is thus marking the difference between the devices of the director and the relatively passive objectification that is the primary definition of an actor--between the godhead inscrutable and the subject humiliated, as well as the eventual bleed-through between the roles actors assume and the mold into which perception forces them.
		Takeshis' is the very definition of solipsistic in that there is no other reality offered by the film than the one filtered through, or bounced against, Kitano.
		Yet Takeshis' is more complicated than a satire/excoriation of his own cult of personality, betraying a good dose of affection for his admirers along with a chiding discomfort with how arbitrary his ascension seems.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/takeshis.htm (591 words)

	Filmography
		The persona in the film is the amalgam of the public image of Beat Takeshi, that I assume the majority of the Japanese audience, who watches me on TV and on film, would imagine me to be, and the stereotypical "pompous big star" image that I assume to be shared amongst that Japanese audience.
		Takeshis’ is Kitano’s most personal film to date, his most fragmented and deconstructed in narrative, his most original and inventive as an editor and his most bold and accomplished film as a director.
		Takeshis’ tells the story of Beat Takeshi, the real life Kitano, who is famous and knows everyone, who by chance meets his blond doppelganger, a shy convenience store cashier named Kitano Takeshi, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break.
	www.kitanotakeshi.com /index.php?content=filmography&show_film&id=98 (2811 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| tjmHolden \| ReDotPop \| Mediations of Japan: Japan's Beat Generation
		For, perhaps Beat is correct in his estimation that the Japanese aversion to confrontation is no longer serviceable in a modern, globalizing world; correct, too, that until Japanese develop the requisite confidence and moxy, they will forever be in a position of disadvantage and collective underachievement.
		Whatever the case, it is beyond question that Takeshi's continual effort to denude the cultural myth that difference and social dysfunction don't exist in consensual, pacific Japan, represents a serious challenge to conventional Japanese society.
		Beat and his minions may actually be working to transform Japan's rep into that of the new, muscular, cantankerous kid on the global block.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/holden/010419.html (2862 words)

	The Beat goes on - Film - www.smh.com.au
		As Beat, he was one half of a television comedy duo, mad enough to dive into a river and come up with a fish between his teeth.
		Some even suggest that Takeshi is Kurosawa's heir, citing a letter that Takeshi got from the late Kurosawa the year before his death.
		Takeshi, now 58, remains a colourful figure but not by the standards of his escapades as a younger man when he engaged in self-destructive drinking and strife with his wife and other women.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/27/1093518077709.html?from=storylhs (814 words)

	eBay — 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano Movies DVDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Takeshi Kitano, best known for such gangster films as VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT, and BROTHER, makes his first period drama with ZATOICHI, an updating of the classic Japanese character portrayed by Shintaro Katsu in movies and television from 1962 to...
		In Takeshi Kitano's KIKUJIRO, the actor/writer/director (billed as Beat Takeshi) portrays the brash, mischievous title character, a middle-aged man living with his wife in Tokyo.
		In Takeshi Kitano's SONATINE, a Tokyo-based yakuza boss sends Murakawa (Kitano), one of his top men, on a peacekeeping mission to Okinawa, where two rival factions are coming to blows.
	artist.ebay.co.uk /Beat-Takeshi-Kitano_movies_W0QQcZ1265022553 (532 words)

	To Give Up A Game First Requires Us To Give Up Part Of Ourselves \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		With a title screen warning that it was "created by somebody who hates videogames" (actually writer/actor/director/comedian Takeshi "Beat" Kitano) "Takeshi's Challenge" forces gamers to endure such tasks as singing karaoke for an uninterrupted hour and holding a single button for four straight hours.
		I always find it hard to reconcile the grande artiste Beat Takeshi people in western media fawn over with the complete retard I see on tv everyday, wearing a bald-cap and bonking people on the head with a plastic mallet while groping some chick.
		Beat Takeshi is a comic and artistic genius, far too sophisticated for the likes of you, nightchrome.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/49375 (1272 words)

	TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Takeshi Kitano
		Nor could I know that Takeshi, whose gravitas would one day tug at the film with the pull of a fl hole, was said to be both a very great actor and the most famous man in Japan.
		I never saw Takeshi again, and then, months later, I heard that he had been terribly injured in a motorcycle accident, and was at first not expected to live, and then, when he did live, was not expected to be able to act again.
		Takeshi is simultaneously tougher and more wounded than you or I will ever be.
	www.time.com /time/asia/features/heroes/takeshi.html (778 words)

	CULTJAPAN : Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi)
		Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, actor, presenter, author, poet, painter, one-time video game designer, and film director who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work.
		With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost exclusively by the name Beat Takeshi.
		Among his most significant roles were Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo (Gohatto), where he played Captain Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi; and Kitano in Battle Royale (2000), a controversial Japanese blockbuster set in a bleak dystopian future where a group of teenagers are randomly selected each year to kill each other on a deserted island.
	cultjapan.com /c013.php (1397 words)

	Violent Cop
		That's a tragedy, since even the weakest of Beat Takeshi’s films is infinitely superior to 99 percent of the films released by the Hollywood studio system each year.
		Takeshi shows us this early on, when a group of young punks beats up a homeless man. Azuma witnesses the event, follows one of the boys home, proceeds to smack the crap out of him, then tells him to be sure and turn himself in to the authorities in the morning.
		Takeshi is the antithesis of John Woo and the Hong Kong action crowd.
	members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10001864.html (1334 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Beat Takeshi Kitano - 2000 - Violent Cop Movies Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		That's a tragedy, since even the weakest of Beat Takeshi’s films is infinitely superior to 99 percent of the films released by the Hollywood studio system each year.
		Takeshi shows us this early on, when a group of young punks beats up a homeless man. Azuma witnesses the event, follows one of the boys home, proceeds to smack the crap out of him, then tells him to be sure and turn himself in to the authorities in the morning.
		Takeshi is the antithesis of John Woo and the Hong Kong action crowd.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10001864 (1406 words)

	BLACK MOON - Brother, a film by Beat Takeshi Kitano
		Beat Takeshi Kitano is not very well known in the United States but he deserves to be, certainly anyone serious about cinema should familiarize themselves with him.
		Beat has been a dominant figure in Japanese pop culture for twenty years.
		Beat, a cinematic force to be reckoned with, should be known film lovers the world round.
	www.theblackmoon.com /Deadmoon/brother.htm (1617 words)

	Boiling Point DVD
		On the other hand, the films of "Beat" Takeshi Kitano are subtle and realistic, but have as much impact as Woo’s hyper-kinetic crime films.
		Besides writing and directing BOILING POINT, Beat Takeshi also stars in the film as the renegade Uehara, a vicious gangster who was kicked out of the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) for extortion.
		Takeshi proves that he is a talented and innovative filmmaker.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_BoilingP.htm (1725 words)

	Beat Takeshi Kitano - Biography - MSN Movies
		In addition to his work in the film industry he is an active newspaper columnist, an author and poet, and a ubiquitous presence on Japanese television where he can be seen in up to eight prime time shows per week.
		Kitano first found fame, as well as his "Beat" nickname, in the early '70s as one-half of the manzai comedy duo The Two Beats, a fast-paced, cross-talk act that thrilled audiences with their off-color humor and satirical bite.
		The tale of an exiled Japanese yakuza who stakes his claim in the unfamiliar world of Los Angeles, Brother attempted to bring Kitano's trademarked stark violence and subtle humor to a new audience in pairing Kitano with popular American actor Omar Epps.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=109101 (515 words)

	Takeshi Kitano - Celebs on their motorcycles
		Kitano was born in Tokyo in 1947 and entered show business in 1972 as "Beat" Takeshi, the stage name he continues to use today as a performer.
		As part of the comic duo Two Beats, Kitano was one of the leading figures in the manzai (stand-up comedy) boom in the late 1970s.
		He is always credited as "Beat Takeshi" as an actor, and always credited as "Kitano Takeshi" as a director.
	motorbiker.org /Motorbiker.nsf/239e8d1fa2788a77c1256c1400623d07/37c29c7d76a2c053c1256e9800340f30!OpenDocument (540 words)

	Biography for Takeshi Kitano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior.
		Takeshi Kitano was born in Tokyo in 1947 and entered show business in 1972 as "Beat" Takeshi, the stage name he continues to use today as a performer.
		Once I made the film [Takeshis' (2005)], I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.
	us.imdb.com /Bio?Kitano,+Takeshi (988 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Beat Takeshi Kitano - - Brother Movies Review
		The Japanese actors (Beat Takeshi, Ren Osugi, and Susumu Terrajima in particular) all shine in their roles; the American actors do not.
		The violence is never glamorized, and to Beat’s credit, the audience never becomes desensitized to it, but it pervades every frame and can make for a relatively uncomfortable viewing experience for those unfamiliar with his work.
		There are moments here—Yamamoto and Denny gambling, a football game on the beach (with the beach being one of the elements that appear to be ever-present in the man’s work)—that are light and fun, yet they’re ultimately bittersweet because they’re incapable of breaking through the somber mood of the film as a whole.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10002111 (1364 words)

	"Beat" TAKESHI KITANO
		A la fin des années 1990, Beat Takeshi, appuyé par deux stars de la pop nippone, s'est produit sur scène lors d'un concert incroyable.
		Beat Takeshi a formé un duo en 1991 avec Tokoro George, un célèbre crooner japonais.
		Après avoir découvert Beat Takeshi dans un gros rock qui tache, cela détonne, forcément.
	www.takeshikitano.net /beat.htm (1036 words)

	The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi Movie Preview, Starring Beat Takeshi and Tadanobu Asano, Directed by Takeshi Kitano
		Takeshi Kitano, aka Beat Takeshi, has become quite the cultural icon from his native Japan, with appearances in films such as Battle Royale and various television series setting him apart as one of the preeminent stars of his nation.
		In Beat Takeshi’s 21st century update, Zatoichi moseys into an isolated mountain town, and quickly discovers that the village is under the thumb of a sinister gang known as the Ginzos.
		Since this is a Beat Takeshi film, expect a lot of his trademark humor to be interjected amidst the eye-popping battles.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1206 (397 words)

	Movies.com: Marketplace
		However, besides reading some short articles by Beat Takeshi that were, of course, more for fun than scholarly intent, I had yet to read a scholarly tome concerning Kitano's body of work.
		Therefore I was very pleased to read the announcement that Abe Casio's study Beat Takeshi vs. Kitano was going to be released in English.
		It is within this miasma of pop-culture vacuity that the former manzai comedian Beat Takeshi raised to stardom, but he, along with his comic troop the Takeshi Gundan, or Takeshi Army, was able to prevent himself from being homogenized by his refusal to play along by television's rules.
	movies.go.com /marketplace/details?asin=1885030401&allreviews=true (1352 words)

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