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Takeshi Kitano , also known as Beat Takeshi in Japan, is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
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Born 18 January 1947 · Q26372
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“Ideally what would happen would be this: Outrage Beyond becomes a huge hit, so huge that my producer allows me to make one film I really want to do and then come back to the sequel after I”
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FirstShowing.net: First Trailer for Takeshi Kitano's Comedy 'Broken Rage' Two-Part Film
Yahoo: Cult Japanese Director Takeshi Kitano Lends Art For Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Poster
ジャパンタイムズ: Takeshi Kitano still has a head for provocation
Awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (2018).
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Kitano released the third and final installment in the successful Outrage series titled Outrage Coda
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IndieWire: ‘Boiling Point’ Exclusive Poster: Film Movement Classics Re-Releases Early Beat Takeshi Movie
Forbes: Takeshi Kitano Joins Live Action 'Ghost In The Shell' Movie Cast
Career landmark: founding member (2015).
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Awarded Asian Film Award for Best Director for Beyond Outrage (2013).
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The Guardian: Cannes film festival: Takeshi Kitano, director
The Guardian: Art beat: Takeshi Kitano takes over Paris
The Guardian: Takeshi Kitano: one original gangster
The Guardian: David Thomson on Takeshi Kitano
The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris held a one-man show displaying his paintings and installations
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CNN: Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar
Did the voice-over in The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit, for Take-Majin, a heroic monster based on Kitano
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At the 30th Moscow International Film Festival, Kitano was given the Lifetime Achievement Award
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Appeared in Dots and Lines (a TV mini-series) as Jūtarō Torikai
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By his second surrealist autobiographical film Glory to the Filmmaker
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Kitano appeared in To Each His Own Cinema as the projectionist (in the segment "Rencontre unique") as Beat Takeshi, and in the TV movie Wada Akiko Satsujin Jiken
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Awarded Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director for Zatōichi (2003).
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Earned Silver Lion for Zatōichi (2003).
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Had Kitano directing but not starring in a romantic drama with three different stories about undying love, and was loosely based on a bunraku play
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And the weekly television program Beat Takeshi's TV Tackle
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director for Hana-bi (1999).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor for Hana-bi (1999).
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And named after his father, was a semi-comedy featuring Kitano as a ne'er-do-well crook who winds up paired up with a young boy looking for his mother, and goes on a series of misadventures with him
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Won Golden Lion for Hana-bi (1997).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Non-European Film for Hana-bi (1997).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director for Kids Return (1997).
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Awarded Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Director for Kids Return (1996).
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director for A Scene at the Sea (1992).
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Awarded Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Newcomer for Violent Cop (1989).
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Made his directorial debut with the film Violent Cop after Kinji Fukasaku stepped down
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Career landmark: founding member (1988–2018).
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Appeared as the kayfabe manager of Big Van Vader at the NJPW Year End In Kokugikan event
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Awarded Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor (1986).
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Kitano worked on the Family Computer video game Takeshi no Chōsenjō (translated as Takeshi's Challenge), as a consultant and partial designer
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Performed on television for the first time and became a success, propelling their act onto the national stage
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Formed a comedy duo called Two Beat with Kiyoshi Kaneko, who later became Beat Kiyoshi
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Born 1947-01-18.
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