Glory to the Filmmaker!
| Glory to the Filmmaker! | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Takeshi Kitano |
| Produced by | Masayuki Mori |
| Written by | Takeshi Kitano |
| Starring |
Beat Takeshi Tōru Emori Susumu Terajima Yuki Uchida Anne Suzuki Ren Osugi |
| Music by | Shinichirô Ikebe |
| Cinematography | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| Edited by | Takeshi Kitano |
Production company | |
| Distributed by |
Tokyo Theatres Office Kitano |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい! Kantoku · Banzai!) is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is the second film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, following Takeshis', and concluding with Achilles and the Tortoise.
Style
The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film, in a similar fashion to Kitano's 1995 parody Getting Any? Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of [his] manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as [his] last feature."[1]
Plot
Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano
- Tōru Emori
- Kayoko Kishimoto
- Anne Suzuki
- Keiko Matsuzaka
- Yoshino Kimura
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
- Yuki Uchida
- Akira Takarada
- Yumiko Fujita
- Ren Osugi
- Susumu Terajima
- Naomasa Musaka
Reception
In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film, Kitano was also the first recipient of the Glory to the Filmmaker! award.[2]
References
- ↑ Is it ‘Beat’ or ‘Kitano’? Takeshi on “Kantoku – Banzai!” Ryuganji.net Archived May 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Venice to hand out Kitano prize Variety Asia Online Archived September 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- Glory to the Filmmaker!
- Glory to the Filmmaker! at the Internet Movie Database
- (Japanese) Movie trailer at Official site
- Kantoku Banzai reviewed at Twitch