Takeshi Kitano
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"Takeshi Kitano"/?? ?/Kitano Takeshi/born 18 January 1947}} is a Japanese director, comedian, singer, actor, show host, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his idiosyncratic cinematic work. Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa once dubbed him "the true successor" to the influential filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost exclusively by the name — although he has been credited as the mononym "Takeshi" for his acting role in the movie Johnny Mnemonic (film)/Johnny Mnemonic. Since April 2005, he has been a professor at the Graduate School of Visual Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Kitano owns his own talent agency and production company, Office Kitano, which launched Tokyo Filmex in 2000.

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I want the spectators to feel like they are in another dimension of reality. I don't want my audience to understand every detail.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

After all, cinema has been around for more than a century. There are many great masters. I feel like doing a very classical movie now, to challenge the giants.

Are beautiful. Mine are not.

The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I realized it was about this feeling of vague disquiet in Japan and in the rest of the world, a feeling that is gaining on us, getting less vague.