Biography
Kitano took place in different spheres. He actor, comedian and director with a very original and bright handwriting. His Peru owns fifty books - novels, stories, collections with verses and articles about cinema. Takeshi Kitano loves mathematics. According to him, if in his youth, he did not "hit the path" and was not carried away by the scene and cinema, would certainly be a mathematician.
In the early 2000s, the prestigious Tokyo University of Maidzi, as if apologizing for the exception of Takeshi in the 1970s, awarded him a bachelor's degree, and in 2008 the National Mathematical Society of the Rising Sun country noted the contribution of China to science. And Beat Takeshi is one of the best TV presenters in Japan and the Panasonic brand brand, which produces "flat" TVs.
Childhood and youth
The director, artist and writer in 1947 in the prestigious and drowning in the greenery of Tokyo - Adati in the greenest. The fourth child in the family half of Koreans, the Malar of the Kikudzirio and the Saki housewife received the name of Takei (Takeshi). Parents, not with other words familiar with the difficulties in which the life of the "dip" in her coming, "coded" the Son to success. Indeed, in the Japanese language "Phae" - bamboo escape, flexible and persistent, overcoming all obstacles to the sun.
The younger Chitano is a grandmother's favorite. The woman took care of the little grandson and raised him before entering primary school. Mom and grandmother put the maximum forces to prepare Takeshi to school, and he became the best student. The teachers noted the success of the boy and in mathematics, and on subjects where the creative approach was required.
After the end of the elementary school, Mom insisted that the Son would be educated in a prestigious high school. Takeshi Kitano also showed excellent performance. The guy is not only a corpal over textbooks, but also managed to attend the Baseball and Boxing Sections. Later, sports experience was useful to director for working on the films "Guys return" and "Boiling point".
In Higher School, China was addicted to Racgo. This is a Japanese type of art born in the XVI-XVII centuries, which connected literature and theater. The narrator went on the OREC Theater Snaps and represented a miniature or a long story to the public. The passion for the Racgo influenced the further biography of Takeshi Kitano. But after graduation, the future director at the insistence of Mother became a student of the University of Meiji, a prestigious private educational institution. Takeshi chose the Faculty of Engineering. A year later, China has lost interest in learning.
He left a university (after a couple of years he was expelled for skips), left at home and plunged into the special world of Shinjuku - the administrative center of Tokyo, where the Bohemian Quarter "Golden Guy" is located with compact bars and clubs, ancient entertainment quarter "Kabuki-Tyo" and Famous Khanatimi (Quarter Geisha) Kagaguzzaka.
In search of yourself, Takeshi Kitano tried many lessons. Working on the waiter in jazz bars, the young man carried away jazz and became a subtle connoisseur of this musical direction. At the same time, Kitano met with the laidronts of the underground in cinema.
A few years later, Takeshi Queche Kitano decided to become a translator and intended to get an education abroad. To make money on studying, he got a taxi driver, but he went to the gas station in half a year. By this time, Tokynets starred in the episodes of the early paintings of the director Kizi Vakamatsu, who had previously met in the jazz bar. Acting more and more fascinated Takeshi, and he caught himself at a desire to become a professional guide. Such an opportunity turned up China Takeshi in 1972. He settled in the Bar "France", where the famous artist Sandzaburo Folis worked as an art director. Kitano worked as a lifter, and in his free time Foli taught him the Azam comedy genre.
Soon, the novice artist created Mandzai - the comedy duet - with a companion and the peer of Dziro Kaneto. The duet performed in bars, strip clubs, cabaret and acquired scandalous fame with jokes on the edge of the foul. Often performances ended with scuffle. Takeshi and Kaneto came up with a duet name - "two bits". Creative pseudonym "Bit Takei" Kitano retained forever.
Takeshi's real name is signed only under directing work. In other cases, the poet, the writer, the artist, the actor and the TV host prefers to be called Beat Takeshi. "Two bits" won deafening popularity among the public, but due to the use of indecent vocabulary, excessive straightforwardness and seven jokes of extravagant artists were repeatedly proposed to strike out from the Mandzai-Association.
In the 1980s "Two Bits" appeared on television scans in the "Mandzai boom" TV shows. The show scored high ratings, but in 1982, the comic duet collapsed. Critics are called "two bits" by the most successful duet of the Japanese Satire 1970-80s. After the breakdown of the Duet of Takeshi China became a TV presenter of a dozen humorous TV projects and a talk show, won the authority of the most popular comedian Japan. From 1986 to 1989, the artist led the comedy show "Tyashi Castle". During this period, he recorded a solo album, toured with concerts and wrote the first books.
Films
In 1989, China's Takeshi was invited to play a major character in the painting "Cruel Police". According to one version, the director Kindi Fukasaku fell ill and could not hurt the film, on the other, he left the project due to disagreements with a film company. Take on the director's work offered China. So he debuted as director. He also played a major role in the militant. In the titers, the actor is as a bit of Takei, at the same time the director is specified by China Takeshi. Thriller was removed over the week.
The second picture of the Japanese director came out on the screens in 1990. This is a criminal drama with elements of the comedy "boiling point". Takeshi Kitano debuted in the film as a screenwriter. Later, the film critics wrote that the "boiling point" - the first film Takeshi Kitano, in which the author's style of director appeared: tightening stoppers, ultimate cruelty and unchanged from the time of "two bits" black humor.
The premiere of the third project - the drama "scenes by the sea" - took place in 1991. The main character is a garbage girl who dreams learn to ride on the surfboard. Because of the deafness, it is difficult for him to become surphist. Mockery and ridicule accompany the classes of a novice athlete.
The World Auditorium found out about the Japanese director in 1993, when the Thiller Chero "Sonatina" came out. The Tokyashi Bit itself appeared in the lead role, playing Murakawa Tokyo Yakuju. Takeshi hero is sent to the island to stop the war of two clans. Having learned that the task was the trap, Murakawa turned what was happening in the cruel farce. Film crimits noted that the fatalism of a key character combined with tragicity is the author's director's style, his "business card".
Comedy Takeshi Kitano "took off someone?" Recalling fans of the director about the comedy roots of the Bita Takei. She came out in 1995. The director appeared in the lead role. Takeshi said this project that he does not want to please the viewer, removing commercial ribbons.
In 1997, Takeshi Kitano presented to fans of their criminal drama "Fireworks", in which the main character played again. Walking after the accident on a motorcycle in 1994 by painting, China presented it in the film. The style of the artist connoisseurs of fine arts compared with the style of Mark Stegal. Fireworks awarded the main prize of the Venetian Film Festival.
Two years later, Takeshi Kitano removed Road Movie-comedy "Kikudziro", where he played the Malena's unwanted at first glance, which took care of the care of the orphaned neighbor boy. To the final of the film, the Hero of the Bita Takei turns into a touching goodness. In Cannes, the audience met "Kikudziro" with ten-minute applause standing.
In 2000, the premiere of the Thriller "Brother Yakuza" took place. Ribe director shot in Los Angeles. The main character of the film (Takii Bit) - Yakuza from Tokyo, who escaped to the United States to build a drug imaging. Understanding that the goals are not achieved, Yakuza continues the work begun. In the finals, the Hero Kitano, calmly paid by the cafe, goes to the enemies to the right death. In the same year, Takeshi Kitano starred in the film Kindi Fukasaku "Royal Battle". Three years later, Sicvel drama came out, in which Fukasaku invited China again.
In 2002, the Japanese director gave the audience a colorful melodrama "Dolls", in which I did not participate as an actor. This is a film about love, created based on the classic Japanese play for the theaters of Bunrap. Takeshi Kitano wrote the script of the picture. The drama was shown at the Film Festival in Venice. In Japan, in the early 2000s, Kitano was valued less than abroad. He was criticized for the inability to repeat the success of the projects "Fireworks" and "Sonatina". Takeshi removed her 11th Movie "Sodachi", a fighter and parody. The director took himself a major role. The film became the most commercially successful work of Takeshi Kitano, having received awards in Japan, Europe and America.
In 2010, the star of the movie Takeshi Kitano pleased the fans of the director-acting talent of the criminal drama "Lawlessness". This is another picture of Yakuza after a long break in this genre. The drama had a loud success and was nominated in Cannes to the "Golden Palm Branch". After 2 years, Takeshi Chitano removed the continuation, calling it "full chaos". The premiere took place in October 2012. The picture was nominated for the Golden Lion in Venice. Takeshi Kitano's prize received from Asian Film Awards ("Asian Cinema") as the best director. In 2017, Kitano announced the third part - "Lawlessness: Last Chapter."
Personal life
During the speeches in the comedy duet "Two Bits", Takeshi Kitano met with a colleague from the female Manzay duet Mitsuuda. Artists got married in 1979. A month later, young spouses moved to the north of Tokyo. In the spring of 1981, they had the firstborn of Antsui, and in the fall of next year the daughter of Sek, who became an actress and singer appeared. Seko starred in the episode of the Father Design "Fireworks".
Takeshi Kitano is known to be disliked to journalists. In the mid-1980s, Paparazzi captured a star with an unknown girl, fissing that it was a young lover director. Chitano in the attack of rage with the company of friends broke into the editor and arranged a scuffle. After the court session, he was forbidden to appear on the screen for six months, and journalists who wish to interview the celebrity, warn about the danger of the venture and ask to avoid sharp issues.
Takeshi Kitano now
In 2017, the audience saw Tokyats in the militant in the "Cyberpunk" genre "Ghost in the armor". Takeshi Kitano starred along with Scarlett Johansson and Dranine Saw Asbek.
Director of the picture - Briton Rupert Sanders - transferred the action of the film in a near future when cybernetics will enter the everyday life of humanity. The film premiere took place in mid-March 2017 in Japan. In Russia, the action movie was shown on March 30.
Filmography
- 1989 - "Cruel Police"
- 1990 - "Boiling point"
- 1991 - "Scenes by the Sea"
- 1993 - "Sonatina"
- 1995 - "Removed someone?"
- 1996 - "Guys are returned"
- 1997 - Fireworks
- 1999 - "Kikudziro"
- 2000 - "Brother Yakuza"
- 2002 - "Dolls"
- 2003 - "Zatechi"
- 2010 - "Lawlessness"
- 2012 - "Full chaos"
- 2015 - "Ryudzo and Seven Fighters"
- 2017 - "Lawlessness: Last Chapter"