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

Directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano ... If you’re looking for subtle comedy, you won’t find it in “Broken Rage.” Instead, the movie very much plays to the cheap ...

Japanese cinema stalwart Takeshi “Beat” Kitano directs and ... referential flourish that’s wholly in the spirit of the movie.

The protagonist of this story is hitman Nezumi, played by the director Kitano Takeshi. He is known for ... this is the shortest of Kitano’s movies, and its key feature is how the first and ...

Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says ... in his gangster movies like “Outrage.” “Kubi,” which refers to traditional beheadings, has ample violence. Violence and comedy are an ...