(CNN)-- Growing up in a tough area of post-war Tokyo, heroes were hard to find. For many they were baseball players, but for filmmaker Takeshi Kitano it was the local yakuza who were simply much ...

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 ...

A man wielding a pickax attacked a car carrying acclaimed comedian and film director Takeshi Kitano in Tokyo late Sept. 4, shattering the vehicle's windows. But Kitano and his driver were unharmed ...

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 ...

Nor does it try to, not that the director particularly cares, and neither should any of us, because the film that Takeshi Kitano actually delivered is all the more delightful. Promising a kind of ...