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	Encyclopedia: Takeshi Kitano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kitano's films are usually dramas about Yakuza gangsters or the police, characterized as being highly deadpan to the point of near-stasis.
		Kitano Takeshi (北野武) (born January 18, 1947) is a Japanese actor, author, poet, painter and filmmaker who has received acclaim both in his native Japan and abroad for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work.
		Kitano's third film, Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi (あの夏、いちばん静かな海), from 1992, featured no gangsters, but was instead a simple story about a deaf garbage collector Kuroudo Maki who is determined to learn how to surf, and does so almost at the expense of the girl he loves.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Takeshi-Kitano (1056 words)

	Kitano Takeshi
		Born in Tokyo in 1947, Kitano originally went to a trade-oriented high school to study engineering, but was expelled for being rebellious and unruly.
		Kitano's second film as director and first film as screenwriter, released in 1990, was 3-4x Jugatsu[?] (３－４Ｘ１０月) (literally, "Third and Fourth of October", but released with the English title Boiling Point).
		Kitano also started to paint pictures in a bright, simplified style reminiscent of Marc Chagall; many of his pantings have published in books and featured in gallery exhibitions, and adorn the covers of many of the soundtrack albums for his films.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ki/Kitano_Takeshi.html (1059 words)

	Takeshi Kitano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kitano's third film, A Scene at the Sea (Ano Natsu, Ichiban Shizukana Umi), was released in 1991.
		In August 1994, Kitano was involved in a motorcycle accident and suffered injuries that caused the paralysis of one side of his body, and required extensive surgery to regain the use of his facial muscles.
		The now internationally acclaimed Takeshi Kitano was awarded an honorary Bachelor of Science in engineering by Meiji University on September 7, 2004, 34 years after he dropped out to pursue his career in entertainment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takeshi_Kitano (1987 words)

	Takeshi Kitano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kitano's second film as director and first film as screenwriter, released in 1990, was 3-4X Jūgatsu (Boiling Point (Being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over)).
		Kitano plays a Tokyo (The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan) yakuza (Organized crime in Japan; an alliance of criminal organizations and illegal enterprises) who is sent by his boss to Okinawa (The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands) to help end a gang war there.
		Kitano is a regular collaborator with composer Joe Hisaishi (additional info and facts about Joe Hisaishi), who has created the scores for most of his films.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/takeshi_kitano.htm (1843 words)

	Takeshi Kitano
		Born in January 18, 1947, in Tokyo, Takeshi Kitano was the youngest of four children of Kikujiro and Saki Kitano.
		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)

	Takeshi Kitano
		Takeshi Kitano (北野武) (born January 18,1947) is a Japanese comedian, actor, author, poet, painter and film director who has received acclaim both in his native Japan and abroad for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work.
		Kitano's second film as director and first film as screenwriter, released in 1990, was 3-4X Juugatsu (Boiling Point).
		Takeshi's Castle, a game show hosted in the 1980s by Kitano featuring slapstick-style physical contests, has gained cult popularity in the United States (where portions are broadcast on Spike TV as MXC, formerly Most Extreme Elimination Challenge) and in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom where it was given a comedic voiceover by Craig Charles.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/takeshi_kitano.html (1607 words)

	kamera.co.uk - feature article - Feature Item - Takeshi Kitano - Part 1 by Tim Smedley
		Takeshi's films are very personal pieces made with almost total artistic control, having written, directed and edited the ten films he has made to date (including Dolls) whilst starring in seven.
		Takeshi leaves the gunshots and blood to speak for themselves; any words in such a situation would be pointless.
		Takeshi does not equate violent acts with hysteric reactions, and prefers to focus on Yakuza or police characters who are used to facing death.
	www.kamera.co.uk /features/takeshi_kitano_part_1.php (1212 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Fireworks, aka Hana-bi (1997)
		Horibe's artwork in the movie is actually Kitano's own work, much of it serenely whimsical, from the primitive paintings at the hospital to Horibe's figures of animals with flower buds in the place of their heads or eyes.
		Kitano often juxtaposes a thing—raindrops, cherry blossoms, and, of course, fireworks—with a painting of the thing.
		For Kitano, human life is like one of Nishi's fireworks in the countryside—it begins as a spark, then explodes as a momentary, ferociously intense flash in an otherwise serene world.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/f/fireworks.htm (846 words)

	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 (1137 words)

	biograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Takeshi Kitano was born the 18th of January 1947, and was the last of four offspring born to a working-class couple in downtown Tokyo.
		Takeshi followed Oshima's advice, and took the role as a psycho killer in a TV serial that became a big hit.
		Takeshi says his approach to movie violence was influenced by the famous documentary footage of a suspected Viet Cong guerilla being shot by an American solider during the bloody Tet offensive 1968.
	www.geomatics.kth.se /sjoberg/homepage/biograph2.htm (3762 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Brother" review (2001) Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps
		Japan's king of the artistically extra-violent yakuza flick, Takeshi Kitano (aka "Beat" Takeshi), makes his English language debut in "Brother," a heavy, moody L.A. gangland drama that has all the bloody shootouts the writer-director-actor is known for, but loses its grip as it tries to grab for an emotional hook.
		Kitano stars as a hunted Tokyo mob enforcer who escapes to Los Angeles after a turf war that left his clan decimated and his own brother acquiescing to the enemy.
		Kitano does not make mindless action movies, but he does frequently get carried away with the gooey head wounds, the severed digits (there's three or four of those), the endless rounds of ammo resulting in hemorrhaging, Swiss-cheesed bodies, and the chopsticks-up-the-nose resulting in blood splattered onto the screen.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/brother.html (707 words)

	Kitano's Hana-bi and Ozu
		The spaces Kitano evokes in Hana-bi, the aural, visual and narrative elisions, are coupled with the frantic violence and fast cutting of the action sequences which imbue the film with both a meditative and distinctly contemporary feel.
		Kitano reveals elements of his story like puzzle pieces, disclosing information in dislocated flashbacks, forcing us to reorient ourselves within the narrative, as we do after the elision of key scenes in Ozu's films.
		The lingering transitional spaces reappear in Kitano's stairwells and hospital hallways, in the melancholy paintings by the crippled Horibe.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/7/kitano.html (2812 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)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| 'You can't tell what I'm going to do next'
		Kitano speaks through a translator, who at one point forcefully answers my question without conveying it to the director.
		More familiar to both sets of audiences, and especially to anyone who's seen Kitano's previous films, will be the subplot in which an ageing yakuza boss returns to the park bench where he abandoned his girlfriend forty years previously, to find that she has been forlornly bringing him a packed lunch every Sunday ever since.
		Kitano has a strange knack of alternating these gnomic pronouncements with simple, straightforward answers, an alternation between the conceptual and the banal which is reflected in the film.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,966251,00.html (1467 words)

	Takeshi Kitano speaks out on 'Zatoichi'
		Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi (renamed Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi by Miramax) opens in select theaters on July 23rd, kicking off a limited theatrical release in the U.S. The film is Kitano's modernized version of the long-running Zatoichi film series starring the late, great Shintaro Katsu.
		(Kitano originally debuted as a comedian performing at the Asakusa Entertainment Hall in Tokyo.) She was a very good friend of the late actor Mr.
		All quotes from Takeshi Kitano are taken from a pressbook distributed by Artificial Eye.
	www.kungfucinema.com /articles/2004-07-21-01.htm (2140 words)

	Takeshi Kitano
		Kitano first entered show business in the 70's in Japan as part of a comedy duo called The Two Beats, and as an actor is credited as 'Beat' Takeshi.
		Even when Kitano remains behind the camera the presence of this fecund polymath does not fail to penetrate the celluloid.
		Kitano has revived the cult period classic of Japan's most loved popular icon of the past 40 years.
	www.filmireland.net /97/kitano.htm (389 words)

	Director Takeshi Kitano - MoviesOnline
		Dolls : Master filmmaker Takeshi Kitano returns behind the camera for the first time since his indifferently received English-language effort Brother (2000) with this operatic tale of lost love.
		Kikujiro : After the success of Hana-Bi (1997), Takeshi Kitano, or 'Beat' Takeshi, as he is often called, made another film in which once again he is the director, screenwriter, editor, the leading player and the talent behind the art work.
		Zatoichi : Beat Takeshi Kitano directs and plays the title role in this tribute to the wildly popular "blind swordsman" of Japanese cinema who was the hero of more than 20 movies and a television series from the early '60s to the late '80s.
	www.moviesonline.ca /director180.htm (2165 words)

	INTERVIEW: Walking in L.A.: Takeshi Kitano's New Beat
		Kitano: In terms of Omar Epps' scenes, the majority of them are improvised.
		Kitano: What I find problematic in Hollywood action films or TV news is that violence is expressed in such a way that it doesn't convey the pain that violence essentially has.
		Kitano: I spent almost a month in Los Angeles, during which I was concentrating on shooting -- and I didn't have much free time for really wandering around the streets of Los Angeles -- so I only have a rough image of what the city is about.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Kitano_Takeshi_010718.html (1870 words)

	[KFCC] Takeshi Kitano Interview
		He was one of the driving individuals that opened my eyes to the world of Japanese cinema, and has kept me coming back time and again with each new movie he directs or stars in.
		Kitano is an actor and director well known for his depiction of Japanese gangsters; however his talent extends much more beyond this realm, as movies like “Kikujiro”; and “Dolls”; prove that he has the capacity to depict compassion and love as well.
		I consider myself the biggest fan of Takeshi Kitano and also the severest of the critics.
	www.kfccinema.com /features/interviews/kitano/kitano.html (3044 words)

	The Two Beats: Takeshi Kitano Talks About His Populist Streak in "Zatoichi"
		Kitano: "Zatoichi" essentially has too much action, and too many killings and bloody scenes to be seen by a general audience.
		Kitano: The bottom line of a typical storyline in a typical period piece depicts the unsophisticated heartwarming feelings of ordinary folk.
		Kitano: It just takes time to be recognized equally in all these roles, a comedian, writer, TV presenter, director, etc. I had to spend a lot of energy and wait until people accepted me in Japan.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_040722kitano.html (1725 words)

	No Pain, No Gain - In Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Japanese contestants prove that humiliation is the ultimate ...
		Kitano was forced into the director's seat when the director of a film he was starring in, 1989's Violent Cop, died.
		Count Takeshi, then, presides over a stage on which the intense shame that, in Japanese culture, is thought to result from failure is not only externalized and ritualized into a game, but perhaps relieved.
		Kitano and Tarantino both fearlessly marshal the violence, scatology, and "bad taste" lurking in their respective cultures and shape it into an aesthetic work that comments on the deficiencies and anxieties peculiar to our times.
	www.slate.com /id/2103427 (1262 words)

	Biography for Takeshi Kitano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior.
		Kitano soon embarked on an acting career, and when the director of _Sono otoko, kyobo ni tsuki (1989)_ fell ill, he took over that function as well.
		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.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001429/bio (986 words)

	Sonatine [HK Version] DVD \| dir.: Takeshi Kitano \| cast: Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu ...
		Kitano is Murakawa, a ruthless Yakuza, sent to Okinawa to intervene in a gang war.
		Kitano is Murakawa, an established and ruthless Yakuza, sent outside his usual turf to intervene in a gang war on the tropical island of Okinawa.
		Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura, Susumu Terajima, Ren Osugi, Tonbo Zushi, Kenichi Yajima, Eiji Minakata.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.2946/qx/details.htm (430 words)

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