(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 ...

For anyone who scrolled through Amazon Prime recently and marvelled that a new film from legendary actor-filmmaker Takeshi Kitano had landed on the platform, they had no damn idea what they were ...

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 ...