For many they were baseball players, but for filmmaker Takeshi Kitano it was the local yakuza who were simply much cooler. The darker side of a person's character is far more intriguing for Kitano, ...

Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film ... director in 1989 with “Violent Cop” and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “Hana-bi” in 1997 ...