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my nigga totoro

8Feb12

he's like some mind blowingly brilliant combination of Ozu, Fukasaku and Peckinpah.

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Charles Deckert

8Feb12

He claims to derive influence from the latter two, yet denies any inspiration from Ozu - but you're right, the resemblence is there and it is rather stunning.
my nigga totoro

8Feb12

I can understand his unwillingness to deny any sort of influence from Ozu; considering the bit in Glory to the Filmmaker! where he says something like "Who wants to watch people sit around drinking sake for 30 minutes?" I don't know...maybe those beautiful still moments are more generally Japanese than simply Ozu-esque?

chanandre

28Dec11

I wish he was my brother. Love his sense of humour.

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deftworker, Charles Deckert, João Oliveira 10

anarxoaplytos

27Nov11

cops yakuza incurable diseases bad parenting unemployment elevator music and casual landscape stills. just my cup of tea

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chanandre

26Feb12

and what a great one, it was.

Dylan Ibrahim

19Jun11

Best place to start?

Charles Deckert

30Jun11

Well, I started with "Kids Return." Not a bad place to start, but maybe you should go from the beginning with "Violent Cop."

Pierre

28Mar11

James Franco thinks he works this hard...

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Muffinhead1985

25Nov10

Dolls is only matched in it's sadness by it's complete and utter beauty.

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However Seth, I think that quote can easily be extended to film as a whole and it makes it a pretty good quote. However, I also really like this one as it shows his film making style more. "When I write a script, I have the entire film in my head, so when we start shooting, I just do it. Im more interested in the editing process, so I tend to shoot in a hurry. Maybe you don`t always have enough footage, but how you play around with it, is what is interesting."

beat_seth

19May10

This page should have a more interesting quote from the director. That quote refers to Zatoichi, which is the only samurai movie he made. I'll think about something in connection with his yakuza movies.

Charles Deckert

26Apr10

Gonin is a good one. I'll never forget his eye patch and green transparent umbrella, shooting the cops in the rain. :)

deanomarr

3Feb10

You could add Gonin, which Takeshi is in

Baxter

27Jan10

I don't think it's possible to dislike Beat. He's one of the coolest guys alive.

Josh Tierney

19Sep09

One of the single most remarkable human beings alive today. Just knowing I'm on the same planet as this man fills me with a ridiculous amount of joy.

L.A.™

8Sep09

All i can say is that i love this man!

Pablo Arellano

7Aug09

why isn't Achilles and the Tortoise included in the filmography?

Potida

20Jul09

Georgia loves you, sir.

Mugino

11Jul09

Kitano goes by the beat of his own drum. His films don't follow any recognizable style of Japanese cinema. He has a quirky sense of humor, pacing and empathy that is uniquely his own, and I hope that it will forever stay that way. Achilles and the Tortoise is one of my favorites to date.