Takeshi Kitano (Kitano Takeshi, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947) is a Japanese comedian, television host, actor, filmmaker and author. He is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, but is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker, actor and TV host. Except for his work as a film director, he is commonly known by the nickname Beat Takeshi (beat Takeshi, Beat Takeshi).

Takeshi Kitano
Kitano rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beat before going solo and becoming one of the top three comedians in the country. After a few small acting roles, he made his directorial debut in 1989's Violent Cops and gained international acclaim with Sonatine (1993). He was not widely accepted as an accomplished director in Japan until Hanabi won the Golden Lion Award in 1997. commonly known. Battle Royale (2000)

He has received critical acclaim for his distinctive film work, with Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa once calling him the "true successor" of influential filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, with numerous has won awards. Many of Kitano's works deal with yakuza and police. Described by critics as using a very deadpan acting style or an almost still camera style, Kitano cuts quickly to long takes where little seems to be happening, or the aftermath of an event. Editing is often used. Many of his films are dark, yet full of humor and love of characters.

life and career
early life
Takeshi Kitano was born in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, and had two older brothers and one older sister. His father worked as a house painter.Kitano reveals that he lived like a yakuza.In his working-class neighborhood, children respect baseball players and yakuza. , many of his neighbors were yakuza. In 1972 he became a comedian in the district. While working as an elevator operator at the French-za strip club in Asakusa, he apprenticed himself to comedian Senzaburo Fukami and later became a theater host.

In the 1970s, he formed a comedy duo with his friend Kiyoshi Kaneko. His stage names are Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi. Together they call themselves Two Beat (Tsū Bīto, sometimes romanized as "The Two Beats"). This kind of duo, known in Japan as manzai, his comedy is usually characterized by large amounts of high-speed exchanges between the two performers. Kiyoshi played a straight guy (tsukkomi) to Takeshi's weird guy (boke)). In 1976, they made their first television appearance and were successful, catapulting their act onto the national stage. The reason for their popularity had a lot to do with Kitano's material, which was far more dangerous than traditional manzai. Some of Kitano's jokes were censored and offensive dialogue was edited out due to complaints to the broadcaster. Kitano confirmed in a video interview that he was banned from accessing NHK studios for five years because he exposed his body during a show that was completely banned.

Two Beat was one of the most successful bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but Kitano decided to go solo and the duo broke up. Kitano is said to be one of Japan's "comedy talents" along with pacific saury Akashiya and Tamori. Some autobiographical elements related to his manzai career can be seen in the 1996 film The Kids Returns. Beat Kiyoshi has a bit of a role as "Man at the Bus Stop" in Kitano's 1999 film Kikujiro. Takeshi's Castle was a game show hosted by Kitano in the 1980s that featured a slapstick his-style physical contest. It was broadcast in the United States a few years later under the title Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, with Takeshi renamed "Vic Romano".

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Many of Kitano's routines involved portraying gangsters and other harsh characters. Kitano said he was invited out for drinks with the yakuza after hanging out at a comedy club, and that the yakuza would talk about crime bosses. His first major film role in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (cast as a tough POW camp sergeant during World War II opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie). I sneaked into a movie screening to see how the audience accepted him as a serious actor rather than a comedian. I vowed to stick to the serious and dark characters of

In 1986, Kitano worked as a consultant and partial designer on the Family Computer video game Takeshi's Challenge (translated as Takeshi's Challenge). The first Japanese celebrity to appear in several commercials promoting its release. Takeshi no Chosenjo and its development was the subject of the first episode of GameCenter CX, a game variety show hosted by Osaka comedian Shinya Arino. .

In 1988, he published his memoir "Asakusa Kid". He has also published many novels and other books translated into French. After several other acting roles, mostly comedies, in 1989 he was cast as the lead in Violent Cop. When director Kinji Fukasaku stepped down citing scheduling conflicts with Kitano, the distributor suggested that the comedian direct it at his own pace because of Kitano's commitment to television. A major rewrite of the script, this marked the beginning of Kitano's career as a filmmaker.
1990–2000: Film ratings
Kitano's second film as a director and first as a screenwriter was Boiling Point (3-4X10 October), released in 1990. sudden violence

Kitano's third film, Seascape, released in 1991, follows a deaf garbage collector who decides to learn to surf after finding a broken surfboard. Kitano's more delicate and romantic side comes to the fore here, along with his trademark deadpan approach. The film garnered numerous nominations and awards, including the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film. He also began a long-term collaboration with composer Joe Hisaishi, which lasted until 2002.

1993's Sonatine did poorly in Japan, but was critically acclaimed in Europe when it was screened at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. sent to help. He is fed up with gang life and when he finds out the whole mission is a ruse, he welcomes anything that comes his way with open arms.All his four films are from the 1994 It was screened at the 2015 London Film Festival.

In August 1994, Kitano was involved in a motorcycle accident, sustaining injuries that caused partial paralysis of the right side of his face. Kitano created Kids Return in 1996, shortly after his recovery.

Released in 1995, Getting Any? This plane! Gatherings like comedy scenes loosely centered around Walter Mitty-type characters trying to have sex in cars received little acclaim in Japan. It satirizes popular Japanese culture, such as the Zatoichi character played by Kitano himself later in the year. That year, Kitano also starred in William Gibson's 1995 film adaptation of Johnny Mnemonic, credited under the moniker "Takeshi". Although his on-screen time was significantly reduced in the American cut of the film.

After a motorcycle accident, Kitano started painting. His paintings have been published as books, featured in gallery exhibitions, soundtracks to his films and have graced the covers of many of his albums. His paintings were featured prominently in the 1997 acclaimed film Fireworks. For many years Kitano's biggest audience was the foreign arthouse crowd, but Hanabi cemented his position internationally as one of Japan's foremost contemporary filmmakers. was not a huge success, but won the Golden Lion Award at the 1997 Venice International Film Festival. Kitano himself said that it was only after winning the award that he was accepted as a full-fledged director in Japan. His films were considered just a hobby for the famous comedian.

Among his most significant acting roles was Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film Taboo, where he played Captain Toshizo Hijikata of the Shinsengumi. , Kitano ended up paired with a boy looking for his mother, and teamed up with a boy looking for his mother,

From 1998 to 2002, he hosted the weekly Japanese television program Koko ga Hen da Nihonjin. Foreigners from all over the world discuss current issues in Japanese society. Currently, he hosts "Unbelievable", which was renewed in 2001, and the weekly TV program "Beat Takeshi's TV Tackle". TV Tackle is a kind of panel his discussion among entertainers and politicians about controversial current affairs. Another program of his is Sekai Marumie TV. (“The World Exposed”) is a weekly collection of various interesting video clips from around the world, often focusing on the quirky side of other countries. In this show, he plays a child-like idiot, insults guests, and usually appears in strange costumes during the show.

2000～present
Kitano played a similarly named character in the controversial 2000 Japanese blockbuster Battle Royale. This battle royale takes place in the future where a group of teenagers are randomly selected to eliminate each other on a deserted island.

His 2000 film Brother was intentionally meant to be a hit abroad. Filmed in Los Angeles, it starred Kitano as an outcast and exiled Tokyo yakuza who sets up a drug empire in Los Angeles with the help of a local gangster played by Omar Epps. was dull. In Japan, it was financially superior to Hanabi. It was loosely based on a Bunraku play.

Following the disappointing reaction to the films Brothers and Dolls, Kitano received a string of sympathetic reviews from the US press. However, in Europe and Asia the criticism was less severe. The 2003 Zatoichi, directed by and starring Kitano, silenced many of these opponents. Record revenue, limited release worldwide, and won countless national and international awards. Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion Award. Kitano reveals that because he was approached by others to make the film, he followed a common filmmaking process to please them and make a purely entertaining film, unlike his own technique. made it

From April 2005 to 2008, he was a lecturer at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Kitano's film, Takeshi, was released in Japan in November 2005 as the first installment in a surrealist autobiographical series. This was followed in 2007 by the release of his second Surrealist autobiographical film, Glory to the Filmmaker!. (appearing as Beat Takeshi), and a third titled Achilles and the Turtle in 2008. In between these films, Kitano starred in many other television and smaller projects. In 2007, he appeared in the TV mini-series "Dots and Lines" as Jutaro Torikai. Also, in 2007, he played the role of Beat Takeshi in "Sogo no Cinema" ("Rencontre Unique" corner), and appeared as a projectionist in the TV movie "Akiko Wada Murder Case". In 2008, he narrated in The Monster X Strikes Back: Attacking the G8 Summit for Take-Majin, a heroic monster based on Kitano.

In 2010, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris hosted a solo exhibition of his paintings and installations. In a basement room, his work as a TV presenter was played on loop for 12 hours.

Kitano's 2010 film Outrage was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He admitted that he tried to do something different with Outrage by watching and having a documentary-like feel of nature. A sequel, his 2012 Outrage Beyond, screened in competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. In 2012, he also appeared in the movie Dearest directed by Yasuo Furuhata. In September 2012, Takeshi Kitano said that the producer hoped to make a third Outrage film, depending on how well it did at the box office.On March 7, 2013, Hong Kong's Minkei News reported that Kitano would At the 7th Asian Film Awards held in Hong Kong, it was reported that "Outrage Beyond" won the Best Director Award.

On August 10, 2013, in an interview reported by John Bleasdale, Kitano revealed his current plans for a sequel to Outrage Beyond and an untitled personal film project. Kitano said, "Ideally, 'Outrage Beyond' would be a big hit, and he would make one movie that my producer really wanted to do, and then allow him to come back for the sequel after making that movie. It's going to be a huge hit," he said. I really want to "[citation needed]

In September 2015, Kitano appeared on Sega's video game Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. is shown.

Takeshi co-starred in the live-action adaptation of the manga Ghost in the Shell, returning to American cinema nearly 20 years after Johnny Mnemonic in 1995. Although he has expressed his dislike of anime and manga in the past, He accepted the role because, "It's a stylish piece of entertainment that's completely different from the movies I've directed, but Aramaki, who I play, is a character with a unique atmosphere, and it's interesting that it's set for each episode." Because I thought," I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of movie it will be in the core of the characters' relationships."

In 2017, Kitano released the third and final installment of the successful Outrage series titled Outrage Coda.