Get us in your inbox

Takeshis'

  • Film
  • 3 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
Takeshis'.jpg
Advertising

Time Out says

3 out of 5 stars
Completed back in 2005 and left to mature on the shelves of its distributor, ‘Takeshis’’ is the opening chapter of a now-completed trilogy of self-flagellating films in which Japanese renaissance man Takeshi Kitano pulls apart his public and professional personae. Kitano stars as revered actor-director ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano, while also taking the role of a nebbish, peroxide-blond shop clerk called Mr Kitano who aspires to reach the hardman heights of his idol. The film is a series of jokes, self-referential winks (mainly to moments from his own Zen yakuza oeuvre) and overlapping visual motifs, as we witness the high-rolling, gun-blasting world of ‘Beat’ Takeshi as imagined by Mr Kitano. It’s a film that defies any deciphering of its spiralling Lynchian vortex and instead just invites you to run along with it. It may falter in the final third, but it’s a reminder of Kitano’s rapier wit and deadpan directorial flair
Written by David Jenkins

Release Details

  • Rated:15
  • Release date:Friday 12 February 2010
  • Duration:112 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Takeshi Kitano
  • Screenwriter:Takeshi Kitano
  • Cast:
    • 'Beat' Takeshi
    • Akihiro Miwa
    • Ren Osugi
Advertising
You may also like
You may also like