Tag: takeshi kitano

Shellshocked Ghost in the Shell won’t introduce any questions not already posed by the 1995 anime (or the cyberpunk genre as a whole). Much of the paranoia surrounds a …

Takeshi Kitano’s second film sees a lowly employee confronting the yakuza Japanese director Takeshi Kitano’s second film is a playful dramedy that crisscrosses yakuza films with baseball. He further …

Takeshi Kitano’s groundbreaking Yakuza crime thriller is hard-boiled fun An uneasy tension weaves in and out of Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano’s debut film, Violent Cop. It also marked him …