Kitano Takeshi

by Aaron Gerow

Overview

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 author relates the director to issues of contemporary cinema, Japanese national identity, and globalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844571659
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/26/2007
Series:	World Directors
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

AARON GEROW

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From the Publisher

The long-awaited publication of Kitano Takeshi, the first book-length study of the director's complete work, goes quite a ways to answering the question at the head of this review. Aaron Gerow – another man of incontestable credentials thanks to his stints teaching Japanese cinema at the University of Yokohama, Yale and his lengthy tenure as a film critic for the Daily Yomiuri – presents Kitano as an almost schizophrenic personality, made of two distinct personas: the director Takeshi Kitano and the comedian Beat Takeshi. Two personalities that are usually at odds, sometimes at war and occasionally in harmony. Both straight man and buffoon, Kitano forms a one-man manzai act.' – http://www.midnighteye.com/books/kitano-takeshi.shtml