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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film, as opposed to television, Beat still projects the latent danger that has made him a film festival favorite and arguably Japan's biggest international movie star. His movie persona is stolid, confident. In place of dialogue, he stares, he slumps his shoulders. His trademark silences suggest a man who knows the ways of the world and doesn't much like them. He smolders, stone-faced, then without warning erupts into spasms of violence. One second he is motionless, a vortex of stillness. The next, he is beating a rival gangster bloody. "That's what is so exciting about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster of big budget glossy feature films. In Japan, where no one wants to lose face, to have the aplomb to make fun of yourself is almost transcendentally bitchin'. "I suppose my film persona is somewhat a reaction to my stand-up routine," says Beat. His own acting style, he says, is influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...next project, which will be a love story, something romantic that will give more prominent screen time to women, who typically have only cameo roles in his films. Despite being married for 23 years and having two kids, Beat allots little psychic space for women in his public persona. His brother insists that for all of Beat's showbiz bravado, at his core he is a shy man who has trouble forging intimate bonds with his family and friends. He is, Masaru says, a lonely guy: "The one thing I wish for him is that he would get closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...early comedy, of course, rather than the cinematic flourishes that installed the Beat Takeshi myth in the public consciousness. Before the designer suits and aviator glasses there was skit comedy and Beat's manic variety show persona. Beat loves to reminisce about the absurdity of some of his earlier sketches. "We put 40 or so talents in a bus and attached it to a crane above the water," Beat says. The passengers had to answer questions. If they answered correctly, the crane lifted them up. If they answered incorrectly, they were let down a notch closer to the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beat Goes On | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...course. While nicknames can just as easily be dispensed with affection as with malice, either way the practice is as stone alpha male as social interaction gets. Giving someone a name--any name--is a highly presumptuous act, assuming as it does the right to boil down someone's persona to a sole characteristic--and then legitimize it through repeated use. Of course, Bush has been shrewd in his choices--while sometimes bawdy, his nicknames are rarely pejorative--and he understands that for most people, a pet name suggests intimacy, a special relationship that in fact may be entirely phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Being Dubbed By Dubya | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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