Takeshi Kitano, known as the "new emperor of Japanese cinema", is also the standard-bearer of the backbone of Japanese directors. His films can not be classified, including action films, gangster films, youth films, period dramas, warm films, funny comedies, etc., representative work "Hanabi" won the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the Montreal Film Festival Best Director Award, the world's media will rank him alongside Akira Kurosawa, is regarded as Akira Kurosawa's successor, and is also known as the standard-bearer of the Japanese film revival. Let's take a look at this classic movie directed by Takeshi Kitano, the "master of violence and spoof master" in the film industry!
Kikujiro's Summer
Angels will not come after all, but we still have the Big Dipper. Uncle, what's your name? Kikujiro. ......
Summer vacation arrives, and Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi), a third-grade elementary school student who has lost his father at an early age, now lives with his grandmother, and the summer vacation is particularly boring. He took out a letter sent back from out of town by his mother and prepared to visit his mother alone in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture.
When the neighbor's aunt (Kishimoto Kashiko) finds out, she decides to help Masao fulfill his wish. She took out a sum of money as travel expenses, and arranged for her idle husband Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) to accompany Masao on the road to find his mother. However, on the first day, Kikujiro lost all the money his wife gave, so the two had to walk to Aichi.
After taking a ride all the way and causing a lot of trouble, Kikujiro finally took Masao to his mother's house, but the little boy was very depressed. On the way home, Kikujiro tried to comfort him, and the two had a very good time, and the summer passed.
"Hanabi"
"The original collection of the strong Kitano Takeshi style", this statement is very vain. But when his various elements, violence, silence, contempt for lines, picture narrative, music, all labels must be prefixed with "Kitano Takeshi", his personal style is indeed so clear that it is extremely difficult to describe it out of the picture.
Nishika Kei (Takeshi Kitano) is a policeman whose son died a few years ago, and now his wife (Kashimoto Kishimoto) is suffering from leukemia in her advanced stages. He is kind enough to visit his wife's partner, Horibe (Ryo Ohsugi), who is seriously injured during the mission, leaving him paralyzed in his lower body and in a wheelchair. Later, Nishi mishandled an arrest operation, which led to the death of his junior Tanaka (Makoto Ashgawa). He resigns, thinks about providing for Tanaka's widow (yuko), approaches and comforts his old friend Horibe, and the underworld chases him for interest, all of which overwhelm Nishi. He decided to take the plunge and do something adventurous to put an end to it all. In the end, Xi accompanied his wife on a trip with no way back.
Bad Boy Sky
1996. Kitano Takeshi's indomitable youth. There is also the young Masanobu Ando.
Koma (Kaneko-hyun) and Shinshi (Masanobu Ando) are good friends who like to pedal together on a bicycle on the playground. As "bad students", they are always hanging out in class, teasing teachers, bullying classmates and so on.
Once, the pony was beaten by a boxer found by a student he often bullied. The battered pony began to learn boxing and wanted to fight for breath. Xinzhi also followed suit, but he did not expect that he had more talent for practicing boxing. Later, Pony gave up learning boxing and joined the gang as a younger brother. Xinzhi, on the other hand, practiced hard and gained something. What kind of future awaits them?
A few years later, Pony and Shin-Chi meet on the street. What happened in a few years changed a lot for them, and nothing seemed to change, and the two bad boys returned to their former school
"That Summer, the Sea of Tranquility"
Music participates in the narrative, takeshi Kitano's strong personal style "silent" side, audiovisual language and narrative even somewhat extreme works. The ending pulls up the whole film realm.
The deaf-mute young Shigeru (Hideto Maki) is a cleaner who finds a worn-out surfboard that has been thrown away while cleaning up a garbage heap, picks it up and fixes it, and takes his girlfriend Takako (Hiroko Oshima) to the beach to practice, and Takako is also deaf and mute.
Shigeru's love of surfing developed from a love to an obsession, and he went to the beach to practice non-stop after work, while Takako always sat on the beach and looked at him with a smile.
Day after day, Mao's technology is getting better and better. The owner of the surf supply shop gave Mao a wetsuit and gave him an application form to participate in a surfing competition. On the day of the competition, Shigeru and Takako rushed to the beach with great interest, but due to an accident, they did not participate in the competition. But Shigeru's love of surfing did not diminish, and Takako supported him as always, and in the later competition, Shigeru won the prize. A few days later, Mao went to the beach to practice. Takako was late in arriving because of the incident, but she did not see Shigeru, and in front of her was a silent sea.
"The Big Guy"
A standard Kitano Takeshi style film, all the elements of Kitano Takeshi are aligned. The plot itself is very exciting, the film technique is also very superb and mature, and the long and short shots switch scene layout and the arrangement of music and sound effects have reached a very good level.
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano), who has lost the gang fight, has no choice but to go to his younger brother Ah Jian (Hideyoshi Maki) who is far away in Los Angeles. In a strange city where he couldn't speak, Yamamoto found his brother, but he had become an unscrupulous drug dealer.
Inevitably, they are involved in gang feuds and power struggles, Yamamoto is fierce and decisive, and then has loyal subordinates Kato (Terajima Jin) and black Danny (Omar Epps), eliminating the Mexican drug trafficking party, constantly expanding his territory, challenging other gangs everywhere, and also attracting a large gang leader Shirase (Masaya Kato) to join him. But the mafia has already targeted them, and a bloody fight is inevitable.
The Most Evil and the Undocumented, 1-2
There is no good bird in the battle of inhumanity, cold-blooded enough, cruel enough, and some black humor. Awesome group drama, n more brilliant characters, a cold to the end of the story, even the soundtrack is super powerful.
In the first plot--- Kato, the second-in-command of the Yamanokai, a large violent group that dominated the Kanto region, advised Ikemoto, the leader of the Ikemoto group, that the big boss Kanuchi was not accustomed to him because he was too close to the leader of the insignificant side branch of the small gangster Murase, and ordered Ikemoto to immediately take over the Murase group. A panicked Chi Yuan summoned his subordinate Otomo group leader Otomo and gave him the task. Otomo has always helped Chi Yuan clean up the mess and take over the hot potato. I thought it was a normal errand, but I didn't expect to trigger a power war that was related to the survival of the underworld world. The extremely vicious drama of violent brawl on the lower gram has begun
The second plot --- the complete collection of Takeshi Kitano's 16th directorial work "Extremely Evil Non-Do 2" to be viewed online, including takeshi Kitano, Tomokazu Miura, Ryo Kase, Hideshi Nakano, and Fumiyoshi Kohinata, who were supposed to die in the previous game, and the new members of this new work, Toshiyuki Nishida, Matsushige Toyotomi, Katsunori Takahashi, Kenta Kiritani, Hirofumi Arai, Mitsufumi Shizumi, Nakao Bin, and Shigeru Kamiyama, appear on the poster in turn.
Battle Royale
No matter what, go ahead. The world is the way it is, and with love, you don't have to give up.
In order to cultivate a young generation who are loyal to adults and persevere in the face of adversity, the Japanese government introduced the "br" bill. Every year, a class of students from schools across the country is randomly selected to go to the desert island for a survival limit challenge - the teacher gives the students maps, food, and various weapons, causing them to kill each other until the last one who survives can leave the desert island. Next, the cruel rules of the game and the desperate living conditions cause the young people in the class to start killing each other. Kind or ferocious, active or passive defensive, the students began their own plans, and the ugliness of human nature was exposed in the bloody death.
The game of Battle Royale is staged on a desert island. What is the fate of the students, and who is the last survivor.
The Violent Man
Countering violence with violence, and finally returning to violence, the original really dirty hands are actually close to their own hands... Takeshi Kitano's debut, debut, ushered in the Takeshi Kitano era of Japanese violence
The rough-style police officer, my wife Yusuke (Takeshi Kitano), is quite famous in the police and bandit circles, and has made many enemies as a result. During a tracing of the murder of a drug dealer, Shunto discovers that the young industrialist Hitoshi (Kazutoku Kishibe) is behind it. At the same time, it is found that his police friend Iwaki (Hiraizumi Castle) also occupies an important position in drug crimes. However, as soon as the investigation begins, Iwaki is killed by Hito's killer (Hakuryū) and disguised as a suicide scene.
In order to lure my wife into the bait, the killer Kiyohiro kidnapped my wife's mentally handicapped sister (Maiko Kawakami) and violently abused her, and made her addicted to drugs and unable to extricate herself. My wife resigned from the police station and took revenge on Hito and Kiyohiro at gunpoint...
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