Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 14 films on Boxlist

Known for Fireworks, Battle Royale and Sonatine.

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Starring Takeshi Kitano

  1. Fireworks

    Fireworks

    1997 · Film

    7.7/10 · TMDB

    Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner...

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  2. Battle Royale

    Battle Royale

    2000 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

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  3. Sonatine

    Sonatine

    1993 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between...

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  4. Zatoichi

    Zatoichi

    2003 · Film

    7.3/10 · TMDB

    Zatoichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatoichi...

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  5. Broken Rage

    Broken Rage

    2024 · Film

    6.7/10 · TMDB

    A seemingly unremarkable man called “Mouse” is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he goes undercover, infiltrates a drug ring, and arranges a fake deal, but an unexpected turn of events occurs... Director Takeshi Kitano...

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  6. Boiling Point

    Boiling Point

    1990 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning...

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  7. Outrage

    Outrage

    2010 · Film

    7.0/10 · TMDB

    The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders...

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  8. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

    Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

    1983 · Film

    7.4/10 · TMDB

    Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal...

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  9. Kubi

    Kubi

    2023 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

  10. Kikujiro

    Kikujiro

    1999 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and...

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  11. Ghost in the Shell

    Ghost in the Shell

    2017 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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  12. Brother

    Brother

    2000 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.

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  13. Johnny Mnemonic

    Johnny Mnemonic

    1995 · Film

    5.7/10 · TMDB

    In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety...

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  14. Battle Royale II: Requiem

    Battle Royale II: Requiem

    2003 · Film

    5.0/10 · TMDB

    It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several...

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