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Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Takeshi Kitano | ... | (as Beat Takeshi) | |
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Tôru Emori | ||
Kayoko Kishimoto | |||
Anne Suzuki | |||
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Keiko Matsuzaka | ||
Yoshino Kimura | |||
Kazuko Yoshiyuki | |||
Yuki Uchida | |||
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Akira Takarada | ||
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Yumiko Fujita | ||
Ren Osugi | ... | (as Ren Ôsugi) | |
Susumu Terajima | |||
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Naomasa Musaka | ||
Tetsu Watanabe | |||
Rakkyo Ide |
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 his latest project.
Firstly: I am a big fan of Takeshi Kitano's movies. Except 'Gettin' any!' his movies always delivered and I found myself collecting all the DVDs. Recently I started to wonder what happened to this unique director (sure, directing movies is only part of his artistic portfolio). His movies suddenly seem to take another direction which is more self-reflecting / audience provoking/ . . . - however, not entertaining anymore. Watching his latest one 'Glory to the filmmaker' was simply awful. Where is the story? Where the interesting camera perspectives we fans used to like? They cannot be found. Instead we are left with fragments of different movie genres and no conclusion. I hope Takeshi's self reflecting period will be soon a thing of the past and we will see another outstanding piece of movie as e.g. Hana-Bi.