Takeshis' (2005) 1080p JPN Blu-ray x265 10bit EAC3 5.1 - Cabiria

After the success of Zatoichi, which reportedly made more money than all his previous movies combined, Takeshi Kitano launched into a more personal loose trilogy about the life of the artist. Takeshis’ is the first, in which he looks at life as an actor. By turns very real, at others funny, at others surreal, Takeshis’ is in yet a new vein for a man who was probably the most famous movie star in Japan.

Takeshi Kitano plays sort-of-himself, a superstar gangster actor. But mostly he plays a beat-down loser wannabe actor who keeps failing auditions for small parts on TV shows. His neighbors laugh at him, and he works at a convenience store. But one day a real gangster hides in the store then dies in the back room, and the loser Kitano finds himself with a Falling Down-style bag full of guns… goes on a mighty rampage. Or does he? Dream sequences and fantasies are flowing in and out of the picture.

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This film is a part of my Takeshi Kitano collection which includes:

Violent Cop
Boiling Point
Sonatine
Getting Any?
Kids Return
Hana-bi AKA Fireworks
Kikujiro
Brother
Dolls
Zatoichi
Takeshis'
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Achilles and the Tortoise
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Kubi
Broken Rage

Check out QxR r00t's releases for A Scene at the Sea, Outrage, Beyond Outrage and Outrage Coda to complete the filmography.