Takeshi Kitano, a list by yeyeyeyeye

7.7

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77

/815/

76

/747/

4.2

/70277/

96

/24/

92

/612/

83

/17/

3.0

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

80

7.4

/24990/

74

/643/

75

/670/

4.1

/57370/

93

/27/

89

/406/

73

/22/

3.5

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

78

7.4

/53054/

74

/1280/

72

/921/

3.7

/26022/

87

/123/

88

/1672/

75

/33/

3.5

age 17+

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

76

7.5

/17876/

73

/305/

76

/343/

3.9

/14116/

72

/39/

88

/550/

71

/16/

3.0

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

81

75

7.4

/7248/

75

/171/

69

/330/

4.0

/16474/

100

/5/

89

/99/

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

75

74

7.1

/13990/

71

/375/

72

/397/

3.8

/30037/

83

/6/

81

/214/

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

78

72

7.5

/7291/

75

/208/

74

/209/

4.1

/22195/

85

/86/

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds.

70

7.7

/23423/

76

/594/

75

/574/

4.0

/32945/

61

/51/

92

/621/

44

/25/

2.5

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.

69

6.8

/15480/

70

/543/

69

/446/

3.6

/18152/

82

/44/

64

/265/

2.5

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

72

66

6.8

/8063/

70

/162/

68

/213/

3.6

/16731/

94

/16/

64

/92/

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

73

65

6.7

/5770/

67

/112/

65

/149/

3.5

/11358/

100

/6/

71

/133/

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

63

7.1

/25732/

71

/594/

71

/507/

3.7

/18935/

47

/74/

79

/469/

47

/23/

2.0

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

73

62

7.3

/4001/

69

/81/

70

/102/

3.6

/3080/

83

/77/

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.

62

6.7

/7710/

70

/292/

70

/274/

3.5

/8380/

47

/17/

57

/32/

53

/12/

2.5

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

68

54

6.0

/1962/

62

/97/

66

/86/

3.4

/10583/

86

/14/

A seemingly unremarkable man called “Mouse” is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he goes undercover, infiltrates a drug ring, and arranges a fake deal, but an unexpected turn of events occurs.

64

53

6.3

/4213/

67

/72/

60

/84/

3.5

/3475/

60

/133/

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

63

52

6.4

/3861/

69

/229/

68

/181/

3.4

/6234/

60

/5/

60

/6/

58

/4/

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

66

51

6.4

/1503/

54

/52/

70

/34/

3.4

/3789/

75

/12/

67

/7/

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

60

49

6.1

/3459/

60

/60/

57

/81/

3.3

/4203/

59

/50/

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

61

45

6.3

/2325/

63

/35/

63

/57/

3.3

/1990/

52

/81/

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

65

44

6.4

/2248/

68

/64/

62

/61/

3.3

/1806/

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.

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80

/18/

A pensioner takes a walk in the park.

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