Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the auth
Called "the world's most original action auteur" by the Village Voice, world-renowned Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano is an enormously popular figure in his o
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan’s finest currently-working film di
Mainly known as a TV personality and film producer, this is Takeshi Bito's first art project. His idea is that art does not need to be serious and that those co
In this study, Aaron Gerow focuses on the early period in which the institutional and narrational structure of Japanese cinema was in flux, arguing that the tra