I love Kitano's collaboration with his composer Joe Hisaishi. And he also achieves remarkable results with color, by using it in a minimal but very specific way. Most of all, I love Kitano's unique sense of rhythm. Along with Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch, I find his work to have the most poetic and personal sense of rhythm of any filmmaker working right now.
TAKESHI KITANO (in preferential order)
1. Fireworks
2. Kids Return
3. Kikujiro
4. Sonatine
5. Boiling Point
6. Violent Cop
7. Scene at the Sea
8. Dolls
9. Brother
10. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi watched 1/13/10
11. Getting Any?
Need to re-watch:
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Never seen:
Takeshis'
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Achilles and the Tortoise
500 Greatest Albums of the 1980s ... Ranked! # 369 Felt - Gold Mine Trash
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Felt didn't get their due. In sales or critical respect. John Peel shunned
them early and this was key in the Eighties. They never stood a chance.
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