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...ARTS Film: Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi Meet the Beat: Filmography...
...ARTS Film: Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi Meet the Beat: Filmography...
...having completed only one day of shooting on the sequel, his 30-year-old son Kenta?author of both films' screenplays but lacking in directorial experience?took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises the role in flashback sequence, reportedly commented that the younger Fukasaku was "more polite than a Kyoto tea lady." Kenta insists that the finished product is a Kinji Fukasaku film, even though he directed almost all of it himself. "I thought...
...RETURNED. TAKESHI TERAKOSHI, 53, Japanese citizen who in 1963 vanished with two of his uncles while fishing off the Noto peninsula in the Sea of Japan, and who was revealed in 1987 to be alive in North Korea; for a week-long visit to Japan as part of a labor union delegation. Terakoshi, whose mother has visited him in North Korea 15 times since 1987, denies having been abducted, saying he and his uncles were rescued by a North Korean ship. It is his first trip home since disappearing...
...back in psycho mode for Four Faces of Eve, a movie in four dislocated parts shot by Kar-wai's noted cinematographer Chris Doyle. And in Sylvia Chang's Tempting Heart, she plays a bisexual with yearnings for both Hong Kong actress Gigi Leung and Japanese-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro. Mok may not get marquee roles but the technical precision and spontaneity she summons within her performances ensure she often ends up stealing a film...