Takeshis' (2005)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Sep 2, 2005 Wide
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In the latest film by Japanese television comic-turned-cinema auteur Takeshi Kitano, a soft-spoken convenience store cashier named Takeshi Kitano finds his fate inexplicably intertwined with that of ubiquitous Japanese showbiz star Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. At times running parallel and at other times unexpectedly intersecting, the radically different lives of the shy everyman Kitano and superstar celebrity Kitano slowly begin to gel into a surreal fantasy of fame as the convenience store clerk and
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Takeshi Kitano
Beat Takeshi -
Kotomi Kyono
Kitano's Female Neighbo... -
Kayoko Kishimoto
Audition Producter, Cus... -
Ren Ohsugi
Takeshi's Manager, Taxi... -
Susumu Terajima
Kitano's Yakuza Neighbo... -
Tetsu Watanabe
Audition Actor, Noodle ... -
Akihiro Miwa
Himself
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It's a film in need of a therapist for the star.
Bold yet bland, this dreamy survey of all things Kitano sends several bullets into his past and puts a question mark on his future.
An entirely useless artifact for anyone not already familiar with Kitano's previous eleven pictures.
Takeshi Kitano's crazy, weird, indulgent, breathtaking, strangely titled fantasy is as entertaining as it is puzzling -- a marvelous movie about movies with a sense of humor and a surreal streak.
I love Takeshi Kitano's films, but around the one-hour mark, I started wondering about the writer/director/editor/star's mental well being
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