Nor does it try to, not that the director particularly cares, and neither should any of us, because the film that Takeshi Kitano actually ... the hired gun that shambles up to a Tokyo coffee ...

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

The protagonist of this story is hitman Nezumi, played by the director Kitano Takeshi. He is known for faultlessly taking out targets on the instruction of someone known only as M, but the police ...

Japanese cinema stalwart Takeshi “Beat” Kitano directs and stars in Broken ... except Mr. Mouse smacks his head on the cafe ...