Takeshis'

2005

1h 46m

Comedy

Drama

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5 Reviews

60%

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2,500+ Ratings

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

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

It's a film in need of a therapist for the star.

Rated: C

Jun 17, 2008

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Bold yet bland, this dreamy survey of all things Kitano sends several bullets into his past and puts a question mark on his future.

Jun 15, 2007

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

An entirely useless artifact for anyone not already familiar with Kitano's previous eleven pictures.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 7, 2007

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Bryant Frazer

Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

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.

Rated: B+

Jul 14, 2006

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Jon Popick

Planet S Magazine

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

Sep 15, 2005

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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camille l

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.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Weirdly enjoyable. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly I watched.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Interesting structure but production was not great. Quite dreamlike though

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

"Beat" Takeshi's latest twisted effort is nothing but a tiring, illusive, violent, intelligent, self-referential mind-fuck.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Synopsis

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

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital