Combining a detailed account of the situation in Japanese film and criticism with unique close analyses of Kitano's films from Violent Cop to Takeshis, the auth

Called "the world's most original action auteur" by the Village Voice, world-renowned Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano is an enormously popular figure in his o

From the internationally renowned filmmaker Beat Kitano comes a rare piece of literary fiction. This collection presents three heart-warming stories of brotherh

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan’s finest currently-working film di

Mainly known as a TV personality and film producer, this is Takeshi Bito's first art project. His idea is that art does not need to be serious and that those co