Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

Birthday:Jan 18, 1947
Place of birth:Tokyo, Japan

Filmography

2012
Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage

Action Crime
6.7

20121h 52min

Director: Takeshi Kitano

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

2010
Outrage

Outrage

Action Crime Thriller Drama Epic Action
6.8

20101h 49min

France, Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

2008
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

Comedy Drama
7.3

20082h

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

2003
Zatoichi

Zatoichi

Adventure Drama Action Martial Arts Action Adventure Epic
7.4

20031h 56min

France, Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

2000
Battle Royale

Battle Royale

Drama Thriller Action Survival Thriller Coming-of-Age Drama
7.5

20001h 53min

Japan

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.


Brother

Brother

Crime Drama Thriller Organized Crime Family Drama
7.1

20001h 53min

Japan, United Kingdom

Director: Takeshi Kitano

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

1999
Taboo

Taboo

Drama History Thriller
6.8

19991h 40min

Japan, France

Director: Nagisa Ōshima

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.


Kikujiro

Kikujiro

Comedy Drama
7.7

19992h 1min

Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

1997
Fireworks

Fireworks

Crime Drama
7.7

19971h 43min

Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

1993
Sonatine

Sonatine

Action Crime Thriller
7.4

19931h 34min

Japan

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.