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Mood:
Offbeat Stylized Mind Bending
Plot:
Actor's Life Celebrity Culture Media Satire Showbiz Artists and Showbiz Media Mind and Soul Disorder more...
Genres:
Foreign Postmodernism Comedy Drama
Time/Period:
Contemporary 21st Century
Place:
Asia Japan
Humor:
Dark Humor
Style:
Surreal Film in Film Nonlinear
Attitudes:
Semi Serious Semi Fantastic
Flag:
Nudity Violent Content

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Takeshis', 2005

Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi

Directed by: Takeshi Kitano

Written by: Takeshi Kitano

Language: Japanese

Country: Japan

Runtime: 108 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:6.5

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Takeshis' can be described as offbeat, stylized, and mind bending. The plot revolves around media satire, the life of an actor, and celebrity culture. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor. Takeshis''s main genres are foreign, drama, and comedy. In terms of style, it is postmodernist, is surreal, and is a film in a film. It is located in Japan. Takeshis' takes place in contemporary times. Note that it involves nudity and violent content.

Summary of Takeshis'

In the latest film by Japanese television comic-turned-cinema auteur Takeshi Kitano, a soft-spoken convenience store cashier named Takeshi Kitano finds his fate inexplicably intertwined with that of ubiquitous Japanese showbiz star Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. At times running parallel and at other times unexpectedly intersecting, the radically different lives of the shy everyman Kitano and superstar celebrity Kitano slowly begin to gel into a surreal fantasy of fame as the convenience store clerk and aspiring actor loses himself to fantasies of becoming his famous look-alike. When the unstable fan purchases a variety of handguns under the guise of preparing for an upcoming role, his obsession with the television and film star threatens to erupt into violence.