Moscow International Film Festival

Programmes


Takeshi Kitano. Glory to Filmmaker

Glory to Filmmaker! // Kantoku - banzai!
Japan, 2007, 108 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Toru Emori

The film features a fictionalized version of Takeshi Kitano in search for his next project.

Violent cop // Sono otoko, kyobo ni tsuki
Japan, 1989, 103 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Hisashi Nozawa
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa

«Violent Cop» is detective Azuma, who is famous among police forces for his specific methods in investigations of crimes. Being brash and intolerant person, he often uses violence and doesn’t shun the most unseemly and unethical methods to get results.

Zatoichi // Zatoichi
Japan, 2003, 116 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Okusu

Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But beside that he is a master of sword, gifted with unexpectedly lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision.

Dolls // Dolls
Japan, 2002, 114 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi

Three stories of undying love. The first one tells the story of the young couple. The boy leaves his beloved and marries another girl. Just before the wedding he finds out that she has gone mad.

Sonatine // Sonatine
Japan, 1993, 94 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe

A world-weary and tired yakuza named Murakawa is assigned to take his clan to Okinawa to help settle a dispute between two factions. He’s suspicious of the assignment, but he goes, and within a couple days several men are dead.

Fireworks // Hana-bi
Japan, 1997, 103 min.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi

The story of the former cop Nishi who stands against both police and Yakuza while trying to help people he loves: his wife who is slowly dying of Leukemia, one of his partners who is confined to a wheel chair after he was shot, and the widow of his other friend.