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is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, filmmaker, and author. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is commonly known by the stage name . Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo ''Two Beat'', before going solo and becoming one of the three biggest comedians in the country. After several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989's '' Violent Cop'' and garnered international acclaim for '' Sonatine'' (1993). He was not widely accepted as an accomplished director in Japan until ''
Hana-bi , released in the United States as ''Fireworks'', is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. is ...
'' won the
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in 1997. In October 2017, Kitano completed his ''Outrage'' crime trilogy with the release of '' Outrage Coda''. He is also known internationally for hosting the game show '' Takeshi's Castle'' (1986–1990) and starring in the film '' Battle Royale'' (2000). He has received critical acclaim for his idiosyncratic cinematic work, winning numerous awards with Japanese film critic
Nagaharu Yodogawa was a Japanese film critic, film historian, historian, and television personality. Members of both the Japanese and foreign press have referred to him as the "giant of film critiques",Akira Kurosawa. Many of Kitano's films are dramas about yakuza gangsters or the police. Described by critics as using an acting style that is highly deadpan or a camera style that approaches near-stasis, Kitano often uses long takes during which little appears to be happening, or editing that cuts immediately to the aftermath of an event. Many of his films express a bleak worldview, but are also filled with humor and affection for their characters.


Life and career


Early life

Takeshi Kitano was born in Adachi, Tokyo, with two older brothers and an older sister. His father worked as a house painter, with Kitano revealing that he used to live like a yakuza, while his mother was a strict disciplinarian and educator who worked in a factory. In his working-class neighborhood, the children looked up to baseball players and yakuza, with many of his neighbors being the latter. Kitano entered
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and studied engineering, before dropping out at age 19. He went to the Asakusa district in 1972 to become a comedian. While working as an elevator operator at the Asakusa France-za strip club, he became an apprentice of its comedian Senzaburo Fukami and eventually the theater's MC.


Comedy career and success

In the 1970s, he formed a comedy duo with his friend Nirō Kaneko (also called Kiyoshi Kaneko). They took on the stage names ''Beat Takeshi'' and ''Beat Kiyoshi''; together referring to themselves as . This sort of duo comedy, known as '' manzai'' in Japan, usually features a great deal of high-speed back-and-forth banter between the two performers. Kiyoshi played the straight man (''
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'') against Takeshi's funny man ('' boke''). In 1976, they performed on television for the first time and became a success, propelling their act onto the national stage. The reason for their popularity had much to do with Kitano's material, which was much more risqué than traditional ''manzai''. The targets of his jokes were often the socially vulnerable, including the elderly, the handicapped, the poor, children, women, the ugly and the stupid. Complaints to the broadcaster led to censorship of some of Kitano's jokes and the editing of offensive dialogue. Kitano confirmed in a video interview that he was forbidden to access the NHK studios for five years for having exposed his body during a show when it was totally forbidden. Although Two Beat was one of the most successful acts of its kind during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kitano decided to go solo and the duo was dissolved. Together with Sanma Akashiya and Tamori, Kitano is said to be one of the " Big Three" television comedians ('' owarai'' '' tarento'') of Japan. Some autobiographical elements relating to his ''manzai'' career can be found in his 1996 film '' Kids Return''. Beat Kiyoshi has a bit part in Kitano's 1999 film '' Kikujiro'', as "Man at the Bus Stop". Kitano had also become a popular television host. '' Takeshi's Castle'' was a game show hosted by Kitano in the 1980s, featuring slapstick-style physical contests. It was broadcast years later in the United States under the title '' Most Extreme Elimination Challenge'', with Takeshi renamed "Vic Romano". Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh characters. Kitano said that after playing comedy clubs he would be invited to drink with yakuza, who would tell him stories about the big crime bosses. His first major film role in Nagisa Oshima's ''
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'' (cast as a tough POW camp sergeant during World War II opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie). Kitano said that he was happy with his performance and snuck into a showing of the film to see how the audience would accept him as a serious actor instead of a comedian. He was devastated when the audience burst into laughter upon his appearing on screen, but vowed to stick to serious and dark characters in film. In 1986, Kitano worked on the Family Computer video game ''
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'' (translated as ''Takeshi's Challenge''), as a consultant and partial designer. He was the first Japanese celebrity to actively contribute to the development of a video game and starred in several commercials promoting its release. Due to the title's difficulty and confusing gameplay mechanics, it was placed first in Famitsu magazine's ''
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'' (shit game) ranking, and is often referred to as one of the worst video games of all time. ''Takeshi no Chōsenjō'' and its development was later the subject of the first episode of ''
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'', a gaming variety show hosted by Osaka comedian
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. In 1988, he published a memoir, ''Asakusa Kid''. He has also published a number of novels and other books which have been translated into French. After several other acting roles, mostly comedic, in 1989 he was cast as the lead in '' Violent Cop''. When director Kinji Fukasaku stepped down over scheduling conflicts with Kitano, due to Kitano's TV commitments, the distributor suggested the comedian direct it at his own pace. He also rewrote the script heavily, and this marked the beginning of Kitano's career as a filmmaker.


1990–2000: Film recognition

Kitano's second film as director and first as screenwriter was ''
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'' (''3-4X10 October'') released in 1990. Mark Schilling cited it as the film in which Kitano defined his style with long takes, minimal camera movement, brief dialogue, sly humor, and sudden violence. Kitano's third film, ''
A Scene at the Sea is a 1991 Japanese drama film written, edited and directed by Takeshi Kitano starring Claude Maki. Plot A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Enc ...
'', was released in 1991. It follows a deaf garbage collector who is determined to learn how to surf after discovering a broken surfboard. Kitano's more delicate, romantic side came to the fore here, along with his trademark deadpan approach. The film garnered numerous nominations and awards, including Best Film at the prestigious Blue Ribbon Awards. It also started a long-running collaboration with composer Joe Hisaishi, which would last until 2002. Although 1993's '' Sonatine'' did poorly in Japan, it received rave reviews in Europe when it was shown at the
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. Kitano plays a Tokyo yakuza who is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war there. He is tired of gangster life, and when he finds out the whole mission is a ruse, he welcomes what comes with open arms. All four of his films were screened at the 1994 London Film Festival. In August 1994, Kitano was involved in a motorscooter accident and suffered injuries that caused partial
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of the right-side of his face. As reported by Dan Edwards, Kitano later said that the accident was an "unconscious suicide attempt". Kitano made '' Kids Return'' in 1996, soon after his recovery. The 1995 release of '' Getting Any?'' (''Minna Yatteruka!''), which was filmed before the accident, showed Kitano returning to his comedy roots. This '' Airplane!''-like assemblage of comedic scenes, all centering loosely around a Walter Mitty-type character trying to have sex in a car, met with little acclaim in Japan. Much of the film satirizes popular Japanese culture, such as '' Ultraman'' or '' Godzilla'' and even the Zatoichi character that Kitano himself would go on to play eight years later. That year Kitano also appeared in the film adaptation of William Gibson's 1995 ''
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'', credited by the mononym "Takeshi", although his on-screen time was greatly reduced for the American cut of the film. After his motorscooter accident, Kitano took up painting. His paintings have been published in books, featured in gallery exhibitions, and adorn the covers of many of the soundtrack albums for his films. His paintings were featured prominently in his most critically acclaimed film, 1997's ''
Hana-bi , released in the United States as ''Fireworks'', is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. is ...
''. Although for years already Kitano's largest audience had been the foreign arthouse crowd, ''Hana-bi'' cemented his status internationally as one of Japan's foremost modern filmmakers. Although it was not a big success financially, it won the
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award at the
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. Kitano himself said it was not until he won this award that he was accepted as a serious director in Japan; prior his films were looked at as just the hobby of a famous comedian. Among his most significant acting roles were Nagisa Oshima's 1999 film '' Taboo'', in which he played Captain Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi. '' Kikujiro'', released in 1999 and named after his father, was a semi-comedy featuring Kitano as a ne'er-do-well crook who winds up paired up with a young boy looking for his mother, and goes on a series of misadventures with him. He hosted ''
Koko ga Hen da yo Nihonjin was a Japanese TV show that was broadcast weekly from 1998 to 2002 on TBS. It consisted of two panels: One was a group of Japanese celebrities notably consisting of Takeshi Kitano, Konishiki, Rui Ramos and Terry Ito. The other panel was a pool ...
'' (English translation, ''This doesn't make sense, Japanese people!'') which was a Japanese TV show that was broadcast weekly from 1998 to 2002, a talk show on which a large panel of Japanese-speaking foreigners from around the world debate current issues in Japanese society. He currently hosts '' Unbelievable'', which was relaunched in 2001, and the weekly television program ''Beat Takeshi's TV Tackle''. ''TV Tackle'' is a kind of panel discussion among entertainers and politicians regarding controversial current events. Another of his shows is ''Sekai Marumie TV'' ("The World Exposed"), a weekly collection of various interesting video clips from around the world, often focusing on the weird aspects of other countries. On this show, he plays a childlike idiot, insulting the guests, and usually appearing wearing strange costumes during the show.


2000–present

Kitano played a similarly named character in the controversial 2000 Japanese blockbuster '' Battle Royale'', which takes place in a future in which a group of teenagers are randomly selected each year to eliminate each other on a deserted island. His 2000 film '' Brother'' was deliberately intended to be a hit abroad. Shot in Los Angeles, it starred Kitano as a deposed and exiled Tokyo yakuza setting up a drug empire in Los Angeles with the aid of a local gangster played by Omar Epps. However, the film met with tepid international response. Although in Japan it did better financially than ''Hana-bi''. '' Dolls'' in 2002 had Kitano directing but not starring in a romantic drama with three different stories about undying love, and was loosely based on a bunraku play. Following the disappointing response to the film ''Brother'' and the film ''Dolls'', Kitano received a sequence of unsympathetic reviews from the press in the United States. Criticism was less severe in Europe and Asia though many commentators were not as lavish with their praise as they had been with his previous films. 2003's ''
Zatōichi is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay , part of Shimozawa's ''Futokoro Techō'' serie ...
'', directed by and starring Kitano, silenced many of these dissenters. With a new take on the character from Shintaro Katsu's long-running film and TV series, ''Zatōichi'' was Kitano's biggest box office success in Japan, did quite well in limited release across the world, and won countless awards at home and abroad, including the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. Kitano revealed that he was approached by others to create the film and therefore differed from his own techniques and followed the common filmmaking process in order to please them and make a pure-entertainment film. From April 2005 to 2008, Kitano was an instructor at the Graduate School of Visual Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Kitano's film, '' Takeshis''' was released in Japan in November 2005, as the first installment in his surrealist autobiographical series. This was followed in 2007, by his second surrealist autobiographical film '' Glory to the Filmmaker!'' (appearing as Beat Takeshi), and a third in 2008, titled '' Achilles and the Tortoise''. In between these films, Kitano appeared in a number of other television projects and smaller projects. In 2007 he appeared in ''Dots and Lines'' (a TV mini-series) as Jūtarō Torikai. Also in 2007, Kitano appeared in ''To Each His Own Cinema'' as the projectionist (in the segment "Rencontre unique") as Beat Takeshi, and in the TV movie ''Wada Akiko Satsujin Jiken''. In 2008, he did the voice-over in ''The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit'', for Take-Majin, a heroic monster based on Kitano. In 2010, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris held a one-man show displaying his paintings and installations. A room in the basement played a 12-hour loop of his work as a TV host. Kitano's 2010 film ''
Outrage Outrage may refer to: * Outrage (emotion), an emotion * Tort of outrage, in law, an alternative term for ''intentional infliction of emotional distress'' Books * ''Outrage'', a novel by Henry Denker 1982 * ''Outrage'', a play by Itamar Moses 2 ...
'' was screened at the
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. He admitted he tried something different for ''Outrage'' by adding a lot of dialogue, stepping back as the main character to make an ensemble piece, and having the feel of a nature documentary watching the characters kill each other. A sequel, 2012's '' Outrage Beyond'', was screened in competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. He also appeared in Yasuo Furuhata's 2012 film, '' Dearest''. In September 2012, Takeshi Kitano said that the producers wanted him to make a third ''Outrage'' film depending on the box office. On 7 March 2013, ''Minkei News'' of Hong Kong reported that Kitano won the Best Director award for ''Outrage Beyond'' at the 7th Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. On 10 August 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. As Kitano stated, "Ideally what would happen would be this: ''Outrage Beyond'' becomes a huge hit, so huge that my producer allows me to make one film I really want to do and then come back to the sequel after I've made the film I really want to do." In September 2015, it was announced that Kitano would be contributing his voice and likeness to the character Toru Hirose in the
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video game '' Yakuza 6: The Song of Life''. This collaboration marked Kitano's first involvement with the video game industry in 30 years since the 1986 release of ''
Takeshi no Chōsenjō , officially translated as ''The Ultimate Challenge from Beat Takeshi'' and popularly known as ''Takeshi's Challenge'', is a 1986 Japanese action-adventure video game developed by Nova and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System ...
''. Takeshi co-starred in the live action adaptation of the manga '' Ghost in the Shell'', marking his return to American cinema nearly twenty years after ''
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'' in 1995. Although he has expressed his dislike of anime and manga in the past, he accepted the role because "even though this stylish piece of entertainment is totally different from the films I've directed, I thought it was interesting that Aramaki, the role I play, is a character who gives off a peculiar vibe and, in various episodes, is set at the core of the characters' relationships. I'm looking forward to see how the movie turns out." In 2017, Kitano released the third and final installment in the successful ''
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'' series titled '' Outrage Coda''.


Awards

Kitano won the
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award at the
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in 1997 for his film ''
Hana-bi , released in the United States as ''Fireworks'', is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. is ...
''. In 2008, at the
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, Kitano was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. In March 2010 Kitano was named a Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters of France. On the 29th of April 2022 he received the Golden Mulberry Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Far East International Film Festival of Udine 2022, in Italy.


Agency

2018.4-: T.N Gon -2018.3: Office Kitano is a Japanese talent management company founded in February 1988 by Kitano. In 2015, Kitano established . On March 2018 Kitano left Office Kitano in order to become independent. Following this the company changed its name to TAP on January 1, 2020.


Filmography


Films


As director

* '' Violent Cop'' (1989) * ''
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'' (1990) * ''
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'' (1991) * '' Sonatine'' (1993) * '' Getting Any?'' (1995) * '' Kids Return'' (1996) * ''
Hana-bi , released in the United States as ''Fireworks'', is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. is ...
'' (1997) * '' Kikujiro'' (1999) * '' Brother'' (2000) * '' Dolls'' (2002) * ''
Zatōichi is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay , part of Shimozawa's ''Futokoro Techō'' serie ...
'' (2003) * '' Takeshis''' (2005) * '' Glory to the Filmmaker!'' (2007) * '' Achilles and the Tortoise'' (2008) * ''
Outrage Outrage may refer to: * Outrage (emotion), an emotion * Tort of outrage, in law, an alternative term for ''intentional infliction of emotional distress'' Books * ''Outrage'', a novel by Henry Denker 1982 * ''Outrage'', a play by Itamar Moses 2 ...
'' (2010) * ''
Beyond Outrage is a 2012 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Kitano (a.k.a. "Beat Takeshi"), Toshiyuki Nishida, and Tomokazu Miura. It is a sequel to Kitano's 2010 film '' Outrage'' and is followed by the 2017 film ''Outrage Coda''. Plo ...
'' (2012) * ''
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen , also known as ''Ryuzo 7'', is a 2015 Japanese action comedy film directed by Takeshi Kitano. It was released on April 25, 2015. Plot Ryuzo (Tatsuya Fuji) is a retired yakuza gangster who lives a quiet unassuming life with his salaryman son, Ryuh ...
'' (2015) * '' Outrage Coda'' (2017)


As actor

* ''
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'' (1969) * ''Shinjuku Mad'' (1970) * ''Makoto'' (1980) * ''Dump Migratory Bird'' (1981) * ''Manon'' (1981) * ''Sukkari... Sono Kide'' (1981) * ''Secret of Summer'' (1982) * ''
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'' (1983) * ''Mosquito on the Tenth Floor'' (1983) * ''Kanashii kibun de joke'' (1985) * ''Yasha'' (1985) * '' Comic Magazine'' (1986) * ''Anego'' (1988) * '' Violent Cop'' (1989) * ''
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'' (1990) * ''Setsuna Kimono, Sore wa Ai'' (1990) * ''Hoshi wo tsugu mono'' (1990) * ''A Legend of Turmoil'' (1992) * ''Dioxin from Fish!'' (1992) * ''Erotic Liaisons'' (1992) * ''Silver Ball'' (1992) * '' Sonatine'' (1993) * ''Kyoso Tanjo'' (1993) * '' Getting Any?'' (1995) * ''
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'' (1995) * ''
Gonin ''Gonin'' ( ja, ゴニン (５人) or, in some English-language editions, ''The Five'') is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in ...
'' (1995) * ''
Hana-bi , released in the United States as ''Fireworks'', is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written, directed and edited by Takeshi Kitano, who also stars in it. The film's score was composed by Joe Hisaishi in his fourth collaboration with Kitano. is ...
'' (1997) * ''
Tokyo Eyes ''Tokyo Eyes'' is a 1998 French-Japanese romantic thriller film directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin and starring Shinji Takeda and Hinano Yoshikawa. It was selected for the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard category. Plot K (Shinji Ta ...
'' (1998) * '' Kikujiro'' (1999) * '' Taboo'' (1999) * ''Remains of Chivalry Zankyo'' (1999) * '' Brother'' (2000) * '' Battle Royale'' (2000) * '' Battle Royale: Special Edition'' (2001) * '' Zatoichi'' (2003) * '' Battle Royale II: Requiem'' (2003) * ''
Izo ''IZO'' is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The main character of the film is Izo Okada (1832–1865), the historical samurai and assassin in 19th-century Japan who was tortured and executed by beheading in Tosa. Izo appeared p ...
'' (2004) * ''
Blood and Bones is a Japanese film, directed by Yōichi Sai and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel ''Chi to Hone'' by Zainichi Korean author Yan Sogiru (Yang Seok-il). The film opened in Japan on November 6, 2004. It was r ...
'' (2004) * ''The Golden Cups One More Time'' (2004) * '' Takeshis''' (2005) * ''Arakimentari'' (2005) * '' Glory to the Filmmaker!'' (2007) * ''
The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit ''Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit'' ( ''Girara no Gyakushū: Tōyako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu'' lit. ''Guilala's Counterattack: Lake Toya Summit Crisis'') is a 2008 Japanese '' kaiju'' comedy film, released by Shochiku and produced by the ...
'' (2008) - Take-Majin * '' Achilles and the Tortoise'' (2008) * ''
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'' (2010) * '' Dearest'' (2012) * ''
Beyond Outrage is a 2012 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Kitano (a.k.a. "Beat Takeshi"), Toshiyuki Nishida, and Tomokazu Miura. It is a sequel to Kitano's 2010 film '' Outrage'' and is followed by the 2017 film ''Outrage Coda''. Plo ...
'' (2012) * ''
Ryuzo 7 , also known as ''Ryuzo 7'', is a 2015 Japanese action comedy film directed by Takeshi Kitano. It was released on April 25, 2015. Plot Ryuzo (Tatsuya Fuji) is a retired yakuza gangster who lives a quiet unassuming life with his salaryman son, Ryuh ...
'' (2015) * '' Mozu'' (2015) * ''
While the Women Are Sleeping is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Wayne Wang. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Takeshi Kitano * Hidetoshi Nishijima * Sayuri Oyamada * Shioli Kutsuna * Hirofumi Arai * Makiko ...
'' (2016) * '' Ghost in the Shell'' (2017) - Chief Daisuke Aramaki * '' Outrage Coda'' (2017)


Television

* ''Thousand Stars and One Night'' (1980–1981) * ''The Manzai'' (1980–1982) * ''Oretachi Hyōkin-zoku'' (1981–1989) * ''Bakumatsu Seishun Graffiti: Sakamoto Ryōma'' (1982),
Yamauchi Yōdō Yamauchi Toyoshige , also known as , was a Japanese ''daimyō'' in the Shikoku region in the late Edo period. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Yamauchi Toyoshige"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 1045. He was usually referred to as “Lord Yōdō” ...
* ''Waratte Pon!'' (1983) * ''Super Jockey'' (1983–1999) * ''Sports Taisho'' (1985–1990) * ''Owarai Ultra Quiz'' (1989–1996, 2007) * Genki TV (1985–1996) * '' Takeshi's Castle'' (1986–1989) * ''TV Tackle'' (1989–present) * ''Heisei Board of Education'' (1991–1997) * ''Daredemo Picasso'' (1997–present) * '' Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō'' (1997–present) * ''
Koko ga Hen da yo Nihonjin was a Japanese TV show that was broadcast weekly from 1998 to 2002 on TBS. It consisted of two panels: One was a group of Japanese celebrities notably consisting of Takeshi Kitano, Konishiki, Rui Ramos and Terry Ito. The other panel was a pool ...
'' (1998–2002) * ''Musashi'' (2003) * ''
Quiz $ Millionaire , sometimes referred to as ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', is a Japanese quiz show based on the original Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, program of the latter title. It premiered on Fuji Television on April 20, 2000, and aired its final episod ...
'' (2009) * Fuji Television midnight broadcasting series (1991–present) :''Kitano Fan Club'' :''Kitano Fuji'' :''Adachi-ku no Takeshi, Sekai no Kitano'' :''Saitoh Singu-ten'' :''Kitano Talent Meikan'' :''Takeshi Kitano presents Comăneci University Mathematics'' * ''Aka Medaka'' (2015) * ''Hagoku'' (2017) * '' Idaten'' (2019), Kokontei Shinshō V * ''Two Homelands'' (2019), Hideki Tojo


Radio

* ''
All Night Nippon is a Japanese radio program broadcast by Nippon Broadcasting System and other radio stations from 1–5 am (JST). It preempts broadcasts from TBS Radio's programming heard on stations under both JRN and NRN (TBC Radio, CBC Radio, etc.). D ...
by Beat Takeshi'' (1981–1990) * ''Beatnik Radio'' (1997–2000) * ''Beat Takeshi's literary night talk (NRN)'' * ''International men's friendship book show''


Books

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Video games


As designer

* ''
Takeshi no Chōsenjō , officially translated as ''The Ultimate Challenge from Beat Takeshi'' and popularly known as ''Takeshi's Challenge'', is a 1986 Japanese action-adventure video game developed by Nova and published by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System ...
'' (1986)


As actor

* '' Yakuza 6: The Song of Life'' (2016)


References


Further reading

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External links


Takeshi Kitano official site
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kitano, Takeshi 1947 births Living people Male actors from Tokyo Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Japanese comedians Japanese male film actors Japanese film directors Japanese film editors Japanese film producers Japanese game show hosts Japanese painters Japanese screenwriters Japanese male television actors Japanese television personalities Japanese television talk show hosts Yakuza film directors 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Directors of Golden Lion winners Venice Best Director Silver Lion winners Best Director Asian Film Award winners European Film Awards winners (people) Asian film producers Meiji University alumni Comedians from Tokyo