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 ...

"Broken Rage" never lives up to its central conceit. Nor does it try to, not that the director particularly cares, and neither should any of us, because the film that Takeshi Kitano actually ...

that of comedian Beat Takeshi. In that sense, Broken Rage is perhaps the work where these two Takeshis work in closest cooperation, more than in Takeshis’, where director Kitano and comedian ...

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

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 ...