Takeshi Kitano One of Japanese movie directors

Takeshi Kitano leads a sort of double life.on the one side he is a director acclaimed in Europe and the west; on the other , he is " BEAT TAKESSHI" an acerbic stand-up comic, actor , and ubiquitous TV host in his native Japan. A large portion of his films are nihilist and understated but violent Yakuza movies.

including the Golden Lion-winning Hana-bi, in which Kitano plays a sociopathic cop trying to look after his wife-but he does occasionally turn his attention towards more tender topics. His stylised 2002 film Dolls, informed by bunraku puppetry. is a fairytale in which a young man wonders Japan while tied to the flancee he abandoned at the altar by a red rope-though, in its two other subplots, it retains a great deal of the violence for which Kitano is best known in 2003 he released Zatoichi, based on the blind masseur-swordsman from a popular series of films in the 1960s. This is a revenge drama interspersed with occasional musical numbers, cementing his reputation as one of Japan's most wild and unpredictable figures.