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New Takeshi Kitano Movie In The Works At Amazon MGM
Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano announced he’s currently working on a new film for Amazon MGM Studios on Tuesday. That’s pretty much all there is to know about the mystery movie aside from that Kitano himself is directing and starring in it.
LOST IN THE STARS, THE SEA IS WATCHING And ZATOICHI Lead The Way For Australia’s Imprint Asia Launch In March!
Aussie label Imprint Films is kicking off its Imprint Asia shingle on March 27 with a trio of lauded titles on limited edition Blu-Ray. Pre-orders are now available for each title both seperately, or as a bundle over at the Imprint website, and I’ve included them in the gallery below with full details and specs on Chen Sicheng’s Lost In The Stars, Akira Kurosawa’s The Sea Is Watching, and Takeshi Kitano’s rousing iteration of The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi.
KUBI Gets An Explosive New Trailer For Takeshi Kitano’s Latest Violent Satirical Period Drama
The newest official trailer has arrived for Kubi, actor “Beat” Takeshi Kitano’s final bow in the director’s chair which opens in Japan cinemas on November 23. Kubi is inspired by Kitano’s own novel and takes a satirical look into multi-angular lens exploring the last several years leading up to the deadly Honno-ji incident that presumably took the life of 16th century warlord, Oda Nobunaga.
KUBI: Takeshi Kitano Returns With A Hefty Headcount In The Violent, Explosive Official Trailer
Three decades in the making with years of research and a book in toe comes the long-awaited pièce de résistance that is Kubi (or Neck), from director and star Takeshi Kitano in his final feature. The official trailer is now online as well, with the film now subject to reviews fresh out of Cannes where the film screen for the 76th edition.
KUBI: Takeshi Kitano’s Final Film Teases Violent Retribution In The First Trailer
Five years after stepping down from his position at Office Kitano and with a new novel in his sights, celebrated actor and filmmaker Takeshi Kitano is now ripe for the upcoming ceremony with what looks to be his final bow with the new period action epic, Kubi. The film, based on Kitano’s 2019 novel, was announced a few weeks ago with a poster introduced ahead of the film’s premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, with Kitano directing from his own script and Kadokawa handling the film’s international sales, as well as its local Japan release this Fall.
NECK: Takeshi “Beat” Kitano To Finish Directing Career Off With Summer Start On Period Actioner
Takeshi “Beat” Kitano at the red carpet world premiere for Ghost In The Shell in March 2017, cropped (Credit: Dick Thomas Johnson/Wikimedia Commons)
[UPDATED] OUTRAGE: FINAL CHAPTER: Kitano Pops Off In The New Official Trailer For The Yakuza Crime Epic
Acclaimed auteur “Beat” Kitano Takeshi still has a bone to pick with what’s left of his past and he’s gonna need a lot of help and twice as many bullets. Outrage: Final Chapter is in store for an October 7 release in Japan following the events played out in the first two installments since 2010, ensuing in an opus of blood, bullets, courruption, greed and total retribution!
There’s A Bullet Coming For The Cast Of Beat Takeshi’s OUTRAGE: FINAL CHAPTER In The First Official Teaser
Ready to see actor and acclaimed auteur “Beat” Kitano Takeshi dump the live-action anime hairdo? If so, you may be pleased to learn that his award-winning two-part Outrage series of gangster thrillers now has a third in tow with Outrage: Final Chapter.
Kitano, no less, sits at the helm as well as reprises in the role of Otomo, a once disavowed Yakuza subordinate who wages vengeance against those who had him imprisoned between the events of the first two films. This one sees our saga extending from Japan to Korea with a cast both new and returning, although what remains to be known in detail is what lies ahead for ensuing finale.
That said, with so many dead Yakuza, courrpt officials and manipulative police in its wake, the first official teaser arrived on Monday and it’s safe to say that the likelihood of this one being any less violent than its predecessors is just about nil. Outrage: Final Chapter opens on October 7 this year from Warner Bros. Japan and on that note, peep the footage below along with the first two bits of promo art!
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GHOST IN THE SHELL Casts Kitano Takeshi To Star
Say what you will of the live-action version of Ghost In The Shell. It’s happening, and with Snow White And The Huntsman helmer Rupert Sanders in the director’s chair while the film itself continues to be a center of curiosity for fans of the franchise everywhere regarding its casting.
Let’s call it for what it is, really, with the proverbial elephant in the room being the lack of diversity in Hollywood and the casting for this particular property has been exemplary of this: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek and Michael Pitt – all fine actors in their own right while the line-up is principally caucasian, making Dreamworks’s newest venture into this territory something of a controversial nature for those critical in the discourse as of late.
The dialogue has been robust on this issue for many a film for sometime now and there’s no sign of it dissipating, but this week fans have a reason to cheer some with word via CinemaToday that film multi-hyphenate Kitano Takeshi is joining the film. Avi Arad and Steven Paul are producing from a script re-work by Jonathan Herman based Shirow Masumane’s original manga and subsequent anime by Oshii Mamoru which covers the exploits of Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-cyberterrorism squad.
Johansson is reportedly playing lead character Motoko Kusanagi, with Kitano starring as Section 9 founder and chief Daisuke Aramaki, Asbaek in the role of Section 9 second-in-command, Batou, and Pitt in the villainous role of The Laughing Man.
Johansson herself still has a stake in a few other properties including her current status with Marvel including this May’s Captain America: Civil War, and a Lucy sequel as of last summer. Dreamworks and Paramount are co-financing Ghost In The Shell for the latter’s release on March 31, 2017.
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