Takeshi Kitano Movies

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shugo Oshinari

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Bowie

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koichi Sato

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yûrei Yanagi

In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keanu Reeves

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dankan

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinji Takeda

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuya Uchida

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuya Uchida

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nobuyoshi Araki

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

An unscheduled late night train arrives at Tokyo station on 15 August, the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Boarding the train...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maki Horikita

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuya Nakayama

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Rie Miyazawa

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The series follows the odd life of kindergartener Makoto Sawada and his family. Makoto gets into all sorts of toilet and adult humor. He sometimes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junji Chiba

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Lone wolf detective with an enormous personal grievance seeks to connect the mysterious death of his daughter to an urban legend of a villain who...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki

A legendary entertainer and a pioneer of gay activism, Miwa was born Akihiro Maruyama. As a young singer, Miwa popularized androgyny as a fashion...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akihiro Miwa

One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

Kenji and Aya spend their summer days in a Hotel. While she is doing her own thing, he tries to work on his novel. But then a few strange hotel guest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Documents the events surrounding the making of 'Kikujiro no natsu'.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Scarlett Johansson

Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

This film is Beat Takeshi's first starring role.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Beat Kiyoshi

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masato Hagiwara

Jean-Pierre Limosin follows Takeshi Kitano on the set of Kikujiro, films it during an interview with Shiguehiko Hasumi, president of the University...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Karasuma

This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.

Genre: Family

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuya Uchida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsunori Takahashi

Yuma Nakahara is the CEO of an IT company and he is a workaholic. He is focused only on expanding his company. He receives a phone call from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mimi Kozakura

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tomas Alfredson

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Theo Angelopoulos

A music documentary that traced the trajectory of the authentic real power band "The Golden Cups" born from Yokohama / Honmoku where the US military...

Genre: Music

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pegah Ahangarani

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Lynch

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takashi Miike

Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kinji Fukasaku

Finding their place between the forest and the sea, the Japanese have always felt awe and gratitude toward Nature. Since ancient times, they have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Sect leader of Aum Shinrikyo, known as Shoko Asahara, and Takeshi Kitano meet in an interview.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

When heads of state gather at the G8 summit in Japan, Guilala -- the intergalactic monster that had been banished from the earth in The X from Outer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Natsuki Kato

Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the crazy TV...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Various attacking forces unique to Takeshi's Castle were organized, aiming for "Defeat! Takeshi's Castle" There were many battles. This set gathers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Jutaro Torikai is a senior detective set to uncover the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Two high school girls get mixed up in murder while investigating the disappearance of a classmate.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sawako Kitahara

A pensioner takes a walk in the park.

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Cast: Takeshi Kitano

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tomas Alfredson

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Yonekura

The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kyoya Kimura

Prolific director Kinji Fukasaku died suddenly during the production of Battle Royale 2. His son and screenwriter Kenta took over as director and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kyoya Kimura

The story of Iwaki, a young brawler who becomes a professional criminal when he joins a Yakuza clan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Masaya Kato

Since his childhood, Takahiro Ashiya is gifted with a very strong sixth sense, allowing him to have flash precognition, and sometimes, when feeling...

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Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident".

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Kitano's contribution to "Chacun son cinema"

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Cast: Morooka Moro

This is a video version of the ghost photo feature that caused a sensation on the popular variety show "Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō" a popular...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

This is a video version of "The Great Prophecy of Nostradamus" aired on Fuji Television Network's "Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō" aired on Fuji...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

The 300 million yen robbery (San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident,was the single largest heist in Japanese history...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Klebanov

An older gentleman deals with an incompetent projectionist

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Cast: Takeshi Kitano