Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano offered a surprisingly candid admission about his Venice Film Festival appearance for "Broken Rage" last year: he barely remembers it, having suffered a concussion en ...

This month’s picks include dead-serious assassins, replicant Keystone Kops, long-simmering revenge and more than one variety of stuffed bear.

As a film director, Kitano Takeshi has two main creative styles: the plot-forward crime film, and a more disruptive avant-garde style. This work seems to be the latter, following in the tracks of ...

Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of samurai in ways that mainstream movies have rarely done before, by portraying the homosexual ...

Kitano Takeshi is best known in Japan as a comedian ... which has just wowed the crowds at the Cannes Film Festival. Samurai epic "Kubi" is Kitano's first work as a film director in six years.