The Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa once wrote a letter to Takeshi Kitano before his death——
"Without you, the future of Japanese cinema would be chaotic. I hope you will remember my commitment and continue to carry forward the tradition of Japanese cinema. ”As a film director, this Asakusa boy who had high hopes from the film masters lived up to his trust, he did not disappoint his predecessors, and became internationally famous for his films.
Takeshi Kitano and Akira Kurosawa Spring 1993
Takeshi Kitano debuted as a comedian, and then repeatedly crossed over, as an actor, director, writer, screenwriter, painter, host, etc., in every job is very enthusiastic and very personal; in personal life, he also constantly "deviated", created a tide brand at the age of 71, divorced his wife at the age of 72... Keep trying, keep tossing and turning, and that's what he said
"Boring life, I don't want to die."Today (January 18), this is called by the Japanese people
"It is also reassuring to hand over the country to him"The man is 75 years old, and together we travel through time through these works and feel their indescribable
Brutal and gentle, rude and delicate. 1. Comics and comedies
"Asakusa Koko" (2021)
"Comedians should make people laugh, don't be laughed at"
"The crematorium called and said that the body had been burned in half, and only half of the money was collected, and it was really earned."
"Don't say we abandoned our dreams, we were two people with nowhere to go."
"Asakusa Boy" is a biography written by Takeshi Kitano to himself, focusing on the time when he went to Asakusa to learn art as a teenager.
Last December, the film of the same name was launched on Netflix as a biopic by Takeshi Kitano, which shows his talent before becoming a master director.
In 1972, at the age of 25, Kitano was admitted to Meiji University at the urging of his mother, but he always had a dream in his mind to become a comedian, so he dropped out of school to work in Asakusa, Tokyo's largest entertainment city, and thus became estranged from his mother.
With no money or performance experience, Kitano Started as an elevator boy and a cleaner until he was fortunate enough to meet his master Chisaburo Fukami and began to learn to dance and perform.
In 1974, Takeshi Kitano and the actor Kaneko Jiro of France (theater name) formed the manga group "Two Beat", which became active in television and radio, and swept Japan with its poisonous tongue and absurd performance style. In 1975, takeshi Kitano, a manga actor, won an award of excellence in a competition and has been famous ever since.
As a manga actor reminiscing about the Asakusa years, Takeshi Kitano once said:
"Asakusa is the real school of my life: the first friends, the first romances, the first tragedies, the first happiness... It's all happening on the old streets here. ”
Takeshi Kitano, shown in "Asakusa Kid", has a sad and inspirational power.
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2. Brutality and tenderness
"Hanabi"
Thank you, I'm sorry
As a director, Takeshi Kitano started from a very high starting point, self-directed and self-directed his debut film "Violent Man", which won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Rookie at the Japan Film Awards in Japan.
In 1997, the director's "Hanabi" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Director Award at the Montreal Film Festival.
Hanabi fuses almost all elements of Takeshi Kitano.
Silent protagonist, sudden violence, restrained tenderness, death ending.
The violence in Fireworks is sudden, in the face of debt-seeking. Without saying a word, the protagonist picked up the chopsticks on the table, slammed into the eyes of the other party, kicked over the other, and then made up a foot in his mouth, and suddenly blood gushed out of his mouth.
But the protagonist portrayed by Takeshi Kitano is not greedy for violence, but the pain of taking on too many responsibilities, a terminally ill wife, a partner who is looking for death, the widow and child of the dead partner, these people are his responsibility, and everything he does is for them.
At the end of the film, on the beach by the sea, his wife tearfully said to him: "Thank you, I'm sorry." Kitano Takeshi gently took her into his arms, and the iron man was tender, when so.
"Hanabi" was inspired by a car accident with Takeshi Kitano, who in 1994 was riding a drunken motorcycle through the streets of Tokyo at midnight, hitting a railing at high speed. He suffered serious injuries to his face and a serious career. Become a joke in the circle. But through Hanabi, Takeshi Kitano conducts a thorough introspection of himself, presenting the Japanese culture's philosophy of life toward death and at the same time a counterattack against the crowd of mockers.
In the fireworks, what is also impressive is that some of Kitano Takeshi's oil paintings are appropriately interspersed in the movie scenes, which are painted by the director himself, with bright colors but not obtrusive, but add a sense of pathos.
3. Reconciliation and warmth
Kikujiro's Summer
People will grow old, and life will force us to become adults, abandon childishness, and become stable. And you will find that you can never go back to your former self, and it is a fortunate thing to have a childlike heart.
Picturesque and melodious. Life is like a journey, along the way there will be all kinds of scenery, but in the end we all have to return.
"Kikujiro's Summer" should be the most well-known work of Takeshi Kitano by mainland audiences, and it is also the warmest one among his works. In the same year that the film premiered, Takeshi Kitano's mother, Kitano Saki, died, and at his mother's funeral, Kitano Tookshi was rarely serious for the first time, and he cried bitterly. He said: "I spent my whole life fighting my mother and ended up losing everything. ”
Takeshi Kitano with his mother
There is a scene in "Kikujiro's Summer" in which Kikujiro, played by Takeshi Kitano, looks through the window at his mother in the nursing home, and perhaps at that moment when he is silently concerned, the so-called stupidity is gone.
In 2018, Takeshi Kitano published a book of tavern companions, "Kitano Takeshi's Tavern," in which he wrote about life and death:
Let's talk about the stars in the sky, looking at the earth thousands of light-years away, is also a beautiful and glorious image. "How beautiful, if only I could shine like that star." People who look up at the starry sky may say so, but the star is in pain there. You know, it's burning in hundreds of millions of degrees of heat. Moreover, it must remain so radiant until all the heat is burned out.
"But, despite the hard work, even if I have the opportunity to make my life over again, I think I will still choose a life that will burn at a high rate of hundreds of millions of degrees."
Sober, true, calm, gentle, maverick, untamed.
If you have the opportunity to meet and you hear the greeting, please introduce yourself like Kikujiro: "Takeshi Kitano, he X's, let's go!" Then, go on with your own piping hot life!
Text/Exhibition Red Aya
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