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A celebrity (Takeshi Kitano) meets an unstable fan who looks exactly like him.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 06/17/2008
C
It's a film in need of a therapist for the star. Go to Full Review
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central 01/07/2007
2/4
An entirely useless artifact for anyone not already familiar with Kitano's previous eleven pictures. Go to Full Review
Bryant Frazer Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus 07/14/2006
B+
Takeshi Kitano's crazy, weird, indulgent, breathtaking, strangely titled fantasy is as entertaining as it is puzzling -- a marvelous movie about movies with a sense of humor and a surreal streak. Go to Full Review
Jon Popick Planet S Magazine 09/15/2005
I love Takeshi Kitano's films, but around the one-hour mark, I started wondering about the writer/director/editor/star's mental well being Go to Full Review
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01/31/2022 Really weird and surreal, kitano is just playing around. looking for something fun to do in cinema. at the same time explaining that he is starting to get bored of doing common movies. See more camille l 04/15/2020 Takeshis' est le premier gros film somme de Kitano Takeshi. Contant l'histoire de Kitano himself qui rencontre un autre Kitano Takeshi, cette fois blond, épicier et aspirant acteur et réel rêveur, Takeshis' double le nombre de scènes de danse de Zatoichi, triple les fusillades de Violent Cop, quadruple l'humour de Kids Return et fait encore moins de sens que Boiling Point. On y retrouve les habitués Kishimoto Kayoko dans un rôle de femme fatale qui lui sied à merveille, Osugi Ren et surtout le fidèle Terajima Susumu, au top de sa forme. Takeshis' est parfois absons, parfois d'une stupidité sans nom, très souvent d'un nombrilisme ahurissant (il ne manque que les tableaux pointillistes de Hana-Bi). Mais Takeshis' est un film que seul Kitano aurait pu faire, un film dans lequel Kitano a livré ses tripes et même plus. Takeshis' est un chef d'oeuvre absolu. See more 07/09/2012 Weirdly enjoyable. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly I watched. See more 04/17/2012 Interesting structure but production was not great. Quite dreamlike though See more 02/02/2012 "Beat" Takeshi's latest twisted effort is nothing but a tiring, illusive, violent, intelligent, self-referential mind-fuck. See more 12/28/2011 Surreal and dreamily violent, like Takeshi Kitano's gone a bit David Lynch and had it remixed by Michel Gondry. A truly mental blast from "Beat" that kindly contains a sequence with the most delightful scene of scratch DJing on a woman's breasts that you could ever wish to enjoy. Self-indulgent but genius filmmaking. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A celebrity (Takeshi Kitano) meets an unstable fan who looks exactly like him.
Director
Takeshi Kitano
Producer
Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida
Screenwriter
Takeshi Kitano
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 46m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital