Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano, who brought the yakuza gangster genre to a global public, says he could have made his life in the underworld had...
What's your favorite Japanese Movie? Have your say... www.smokyo.com Growing up in a tough area of post-war Tokyo, heroes were hard to find. "The West...
Filmmaking masterclass with award-winning Japanese actor/director Takeshi Kitano (北野 武) aka "Beat" Takeshi (ビートたけし). He is the director of such films as Violent Cop, Boiling...
Violent Cop (その男、凶暴につき, Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki?), meaning 'That man, atrociously being attacked' in English) is a 1989 Japanese film directed by and starring...
Two school-age chums, Shinji and Masaru, spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates, playing pranks, and sneaking to the movies. They decide to...
