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Takeshis'

2005

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi ...

6.0

2,103

Comedy. Drama. Fantasy Shortly after completing Sonatine, director Takeshi Kitano conceived of a film about an ordinary guy who enters an imaginary world inside his own head. This idea comes to fruition in Kitano's latest feature, Takeshis'. Kitano acts opposite himself, playing both the ordinary guy - also named Kitano - and the director's real-life alter-ego, TV and cinema star "Beat" Takeshi. He infiltrates the fascinating world of his own unusual ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"A promising opening gives way to a succession of pointless, self-mocking, seemingly arbitrary jokes about identity."	NEG
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"The script swims in tired circles, like a goldfish in a bowl, with nothing to look at but its own reflection in the glass (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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