"If you work with us, we'll let you off the hook." Prime Video in Japan has revealed a trailer for Broken Rage, a unique Takeshi Kitano film ready for release on streaming in the next few months. This ...

Broken Rage is now streaming on Prime Video. Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi) is as synonymous with Japanese mob thrillers as Robert De Niro is with American crime dramas. The similarities don’t ...

Kitano Takeshi, one of the biggest names in contemporary Japanese cinema, is directing an untitled movie for Amazon MGM Studios. Other details of the movie, such as cast and synopsis were also scant.

Just before the final shootout in Brother, the yakuza played by Takeshi “Beat” Kitano walks into a diner out in the California desert. The old man behind the counter takes a long look at him and says, ...

It can often seem affected when people prominent in other fields decide to take up painting. But in the case of Japanese polymath “Beat” Takeshi Kitano, it’s just one more expression of the ...