Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.... (Full plot summary below)
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Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
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| Bryant Frazer's Deep FocusBryant FrazerTakeshi 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. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's a film in need of a therapist for the star. |
| Film4Anton BitelBold yet bland, this dreamy survey of all things Kitano sends several bullets into his past and puts a question mark on his future. |
| User ReviewLeigh AExcellent film. This film is essential to anyone who is interested in what makes Takeshi Kitano tick as an artist. The different ways he views himself while making the movie in his head while we watch him make the movie he is thinking of would leave any audience member scratching their head. But I've thought of this film a lot since seeing it and I think time might shoot it to the top of my favourtie Kitano films. |
| User ReviewMax LOne of the most engaging, enjoyable films I've ever seen. |
| User ReviewTomek SNarcissistic? Of course = the point. super decomposing of self. Is this a guilt trip to him or a smack in the face? Love the two headshots in a row. Great start to his deconstruction period. |
| User ReviewSerena HAbsolutely stunning Japanese arthouse(?) featuring chronic surrealism. Lost me during a few scenes which were very comparable to the work of David Lynch. Incredibly self-referential and a poignantly sad take on the life of a down-and-out actor waiting for The Audition that will catapult him to fame. Highly recommended! |
| User ReviewPaul Wperfect purchase fo my collection of strange movies. |
| User ReviewRandy BSort of a Lynchian ALL THAT JAZZ as Takeshi somewhat autobiographically recounts his own career. He himself plays two actors who represent himself at different points in his own career--the successful yakuza-playing A-list actor and the struggling actor trying to make a name for himself in the business. The film follows the struggling Takeshi's dream and fantasy sequences which slapdashedly cover Kitano's career's style and thematic faves--beaches, dance numbers, gun play, silent characters, and explosive acts of violence. The deeper Kitano takes us into the fantasy of the character, the more he blurs the lines between personal-and-persona and media-and-man. |
| User ReviewJavaka SShockingly violent, yet beautifully strange, this movie is a poke at Kitano's films as well as his career. By far, his best work yet. |
