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I've fallen behind on my Outrage, I'm afraid, but here's a new trailer and poster for Outrage Coda. It's the third installment in what's become a series for Kitano Takeshi, following the original in 2010, which I quite enjoyed, and...

Earlier this year, UK- distributor Third Window Films released three films by writer/actor/director Kitano Takeshi, and these turned out to be pretty awesome. For starters, each of these had distinctive yet aligned new cover art. Well, if you were a...

The iconic Kitano Takeshi gives some bald headed bad guy in Assassination Classroom, Wild 7 and Umizaru director Hasumi Eiichiro's Mozu. The feature film continuation of the popular and critically acclaimed television series of the same name - a series...

Takeshi Kitano's latest film Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen merges the famous director's two favorite movie genres: comedy and gangster thriller. Gathering a slew of older actors from his earlier films, Kitano pitches his geriatric protagonists as a group against...

Every autumn the Camera Japan festival descends on Rotterdam for a long weekend, after which it transforms into a traveling festival which visits several other cities as well. This year, on September the 24th, the festival celebrates its 10th...

Prolific Japanese director Sabu teams up with Kitano Takeshi's Office Kitano for his latest effort, an adaptation of his own novel Ten No Chasuke - known simply in English as Chasuke's Journey.In the afterlife, busy playwrights are writing scenarios for...

Having spent a lifetime garnering international fame for his violent gangster cinema, Kitano Takeshi is getting old. This fact is clearly not lost on the veteran prankster as the comedian turned criminal auteur - never shy about laying on the...

After spending the past few years in the ultra violent world of his Outrage films iconic writer-director-performer Kitano Takeshi is looking to put a more comedic spin on yakuza culture with his latest, the upcoming Ryuzo 7 (Ryuzo to Shichinin...

Japanese crime master Kitano Takeshi returns with Beyond Outrage - retitled from the previous Outrage Beyond - and with the film now available on VOD and iTunes prior to the January theatrical release ScreenAnarchy is proud to present an exclusive...

Kitano Takeshi's latest gangster opus, Beyond Outrage, hits US VOD November 28th prior to a January 3rd limited theatrical run and distributor MAgnolia Pictures have released a new red band trailer for the film.With BEYOND OUTRAGE, action cinema master Takeshi...