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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...