Takeshi Kitano

Bio: Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese film director comedian singer actor film editor presenter screenwriter author poet painter and onetime video game designer who has received critical acclaim both in his native Japan and abroad for his idiosyncratic cinematic work. The film scholar Sean Redmond has placed Kitano within the pantheon of Japanese film directors in the tradition of Yasujiro Ozu Flowering Blood Columbia University Press 2012.

Born: January 18, 1947 in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan