Items Matching Tag 'Takeshi Kitano'

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Blu-ray Details)
Japanese auteur Nagisa Oshima's (In the Realm of the Senses) BAFTA winning English language début, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence unites two classic cult figures- rock legend David Bowie (in one of his finest roles) and the inimitable actor/director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano (Zatoichi). Adapted by Paul Mayersberg (The Man who Fell to Earth) from the novel by Laurens Van der Post, the film is a...

Battle Royale: Limited Edition (Blu-ray Details)
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act. Overseen by a former...

Battle Royale: Limited Edition Box Set (3 Discs) (DVD Details)
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act. Overseen by a former...

Violent Cop (DVD Details)
Violent Cop is a deliriously violent masterpiece that follows a rebellious, loose cannon police detective who finds his life threatened by a local Yakuza gang. He is forced to take the law into his own hands to deliver his own brand of justice.

Takeshi Kitano: The Collection (6 Disc) (DVD Details)
Violent Cop: Japanese superstar "Beat" Takeshi Kitano makes his directorial debut in this critically acclaimed action film in which he also stars as Azuma, an urban cop at the end of his rope. Not above using violent tactics in order to punish the lawless, Azuma's daily routine involves a new partner and a mentally challenged sister. When his violent ways cause the death of a friend, his short...

Kikujiro (UK) (DVD Details)
Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) is a nine-year-old boy who is desperate to locate his long-lost biological mother. Abandoned by all of his friends for the summer holidays and with no one to accompany him on his quest, Masao is left in the care of layabout yakuza goon Kikujiro (Kitano) who doesn`t like children at all, least of all demanding nine-year-old boys. Over time, man and boy develop a fondness...

Battle Royale: Special Edition (UK) (DVD Details)
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation`s youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act. Overseen by a former...

Gohatto (aka Taboo) (UK) (DVD Details)
Set in an all male Shinsengumi samurai school during Japan`s Shogun era, circa 1865, Gohatto (Taboo) is a dramatic study of homoerotic obsession from acclaimed director Nagisa Oshima (Max Mon Amour, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Ai No Corrida). The Shinsengumi are an elite samurai militia formed to protect Japan`s Shogun dictatorship. Training under the leadership of Commander Isami Kondo (Yoichi...

Violent Cop (UK) (DVD Details)
International superstar `Beat` Takeshi Kitano combines cool violence and powerful emotion to reinvent the gangster film genre in his explosive and critically acclaimed masterpiece Violent Cop. Takeshi plays renegade cop Azuma who employs his own methods to get results. But he gets seriously involved in a web of deception when he tries to save a corrupt colleague who is up to his neck in drugs...

Gonin (UK) (DVD Details)
Japanese Director Takashi Ishii`s brutal hyperstylish hallucinogenic roller coaster of a movie takes a group of five desperate men through the robbery of a Yakuza gangster outfit and the bloody revenge that follows. Ishii assembles a cast of Japan`s coolest actors including Naoto Takenaka (Shall We Dance) and the legendary `Beat` Takeshi Kitano and his fluid, sensual camera work creates sequences...

Brother (UK) (DVD Details)
A film by Takeshi Kitano, the acclaimed director of Hana-Bi, Violent Cop and Boiling Point. In Japan, the sworn brotherhood of the Yakuza is described as being “thicker than the blood of kindred brothers”. With his life under threat, disgraced Yakuza hard man Yamamoto escapes to Los Angeles in search of his half-brother Ken, a small-time drug dealer. Unable to speak the...

Hana Bi (UK) (DVD Details)
Critically acclaimed `Hana-bi` (winning at The Venice Film Festival, 1987) is a tale of guilt, death and loyalty in Japan`s crime world. Directed and starring the acclaimed Takeshi Kitamo, `Hana-bi` shows his true talent in film-making and performing and received stunning reviews.

Johnny Mnemonic (US) (DVD Details)
Keanu Reeves is a space-age courier who`s plugged in, turned on and buffed up to deliver the most important data of the 21st century, wet-wired directly into his brain! A rapid-fire roller coaster of action and high-impact imagery!