Office Kitano Popular Movie

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

genus: Drama

cast: Jiang Wu

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...

genus: Crime

cast: Takeshi Kitano

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...

genus: Crime

cast: Takeshi Kitano

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

genus: Comedy

cast: Pegah Ahangarani

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...

genus: Adventure

cast: Takeshi Kitano

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...

genus: Drama

cast: Ken Kaneko

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two...

genus: Comedy

cast: Takeshi Kitano

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by...

genus: Drama

cast: Claude Maki

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a...

genus: Action

cast: Takeshi Kitano

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

genus: Drama

cast: Miho Kanno

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife...

genus: Comedy

cast: Takeshi Kitano

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted...

genus: Action

cast: Takeshi Kitano

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...

genus: Drama

cast: Zhao Tao

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...

genus: Comedy

cast: Takeshi Kitano

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....

genus: Action

cast: Kazuya Nakayama

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

genus: Romance

cast: Zhao Tao

Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative...

genus: Thriller

cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

genus: Drama

cast: Joan Chen

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

genus: Comedy

cast: Dankan

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

genus: Drama

cast: Takeshi Kitano