Sakura. Samurai. Haiku. Kabuki. Hokusai. Fuji. Harakiri. Ninja. Sushi with wasabi. Akutagawa… That’s all the Russians are used to knowing about Japan. Takeshi Kitano broke into this chain and destroyed the cultural-gastronomic-landscape series.
Sakura. Samurai. Haiku. Kabuki. Hokusai. Fuji. Harakiri. Ninja. Sushi with wasabi. Akutagawa… That’s all the Russians are used to knowing about Japan. Takeshi Kitano broke into this chain and destroyed the cultural-gastronomic-landscape series. In his own way — a half-moving criminal person (motorcycle accident); his hero — a knight with plebeian manners; with their films, in which frank violence and sublime sensitivity, blood and aesthetics are exactly equal.
Kitano has become another emblem of Japan, humane and accessible. He knows the value of love and hate. The son of a mafia-connected painter and a military woman, he grew up in an era of yakuza prosperity and the collapse of traditional values. And all this sunk into him and then splashed out: a kind hooligan helping a fatherless boy to look for his mother in Kikujiro; a brutal cop who adores his terminally ill wife in Fireworks; the deaf-mute surfer from Scenes by the Sea and the blind hitman from Zatoichi. Kitano’s twelfth film, Takeshiz, is his first attempt at a «personal story» without the chopstick killing absurdity. And the first film in which he destroyed his gangster-cop image. As once corrected the image of his Japan.
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano and others.
In theaters from 24 August.
The previous 11 films by Takeshi Kitano were released on home video in Russia. You can find them in the online store www.ozon.ru