Takeshi Kitano

What makes a Takeshi Kitano film a Takeshi Kitano film

Across 12 films, they run somewhat more ambiguity, somewhat less hope and somewhat more melancholy than films in general. Their films vary about as much as any director’s do, so this is an average rather than a template.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.