The Japanese film legend premiered his latest (though he promises not his last) feature, the samurai period epic 'Kubi,' in Cannes. By Patrick Brzeski, Scott Roxborough Takeshi Kitano has had enough ...

Director, actor, and comedian Takeshi Kitano will leave Office Kitano, the agency and production company he co-founded, at the end of March and go independent. Masayuki Mori, who has served as Office ...

TOKYO—Takeshi Kitano makes his comeback at Cannes next week with a new samurai epic, but the cult Japanese filmmaker told AFP that he strives to remain “indifferent” to success. Kitano, who rose to ...

When I was working on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, [the director] Nagisa Oshima told me about this big festival in the south of France. I didn't know much about it; I just had an image of Brigitte ...

But there’s still enough “Beat” in Kitano for him to retain his impish streak. In “The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi,” more so than any other Kitano film save for the little-known “Getting Any?,” a gag is ...