TAKESHIS'
Shortly after completing Sonatine, director Takeshi Kitano conceived of a film about an ordinary guy who enters an imaginary world inside his own head. This idea comes to fruition in Kitanos latest feature, Takeshis. Kitano acts opposite himself, playing both the ordinary guy also named Kitano and the directors real-life alter-ego, TV and cinema star «Beat» Takeshi. He infiltrates the fascinating world of his own unusual celebrity enterprise and creates mesmerizing conceptual reverberations. A dramatic comedy of repetitions, exaggerations and contrasts, Takeshis violates rules about form and storytelling. Kitano playing his twin roles with flawless ease and consummate skill enters the sublime domain of cinema-within-cinema with the playfulness of a «puer eternus» the eternal child abiding in all of us. (Giovanna Fulvi)
- Beat Takeshi - Otomo
- Terajima Susumu - Igarashi
- Kitano Takeshi - Zatoichi
- Asano Tadanobu - Gennosuke Hattori
- Kyono Kotomi
- Kishimoto Kayoko
- Osugi Ren
- Watanabe Tetsu
- Miwa Akihiro
- Kitano Takeshi
- Yanagishima Katsumi
- Horiuchi Senji
- Kitano Takeshi
- Nagi
- Isoda Norihiro
- Yamamoto Yoji
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