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 ...

Japanese cinema stalwart Takeshi “Beat” Kitano directs and stars in Broken Rage (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video), one of ...

Kitano Takeshi is best known in Japan as a comedian. But elsewhere, he's widely seen as a powerhouse of world cinema. Whatever he's doing, dark humor is a common thread, and it's on full show in ...