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Kitano Takeshi. DeconstruactAilng Violence. Kitano Takeshi. Born on 17, January 1947 His father, Kikujiro , was a house painter, a failed yakuza (?) Excelled in math and science, though he was a college drop-out. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Kitano Takeshi
DeconstruactAilng Violence
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Kitano Takeshi• Born on 17, January 1947• His father, Kikujiro, was a
house painter, a failed yakuza (?)
• Excelled in math and science, though he was a college drop-out.
• Found a job at France-za, a striptease club - being elevator operator and bringing in customers.
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Kitano Takeshi
• France-za, striptease theatre, incl. magic, stand-up comedy, short comic play
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Kitano Takeshi• Tutored by Fukami
Senzaburo to be a comedian.
• Kitano came at the end of the illustrious list of Asakusa entertainers since the pre-war period - Enomoto Ken’ichi, Furukawa Roppa, Atsumi Kiyoshi, Hagimoto Kin’ichi.
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Asakusa Comedians
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Kitano Takeshi • With Kaneko Kiyoshi, Kitano formed a duo standing comedian team, Two Beats.
• Anarchic stage performance - full of black homour, discriminatory jokes, obscene words and actions breaking broadcasting ethical codes, though popular.
• Two Beat
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Kitano Takeshi as Actor• 1969 Yuke Yuke Nidome no Shojo (Go, Go,
Second Virgin) by Wakamatsu Koji (as extra)• http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAH_J8JQw4• 1980 Makoto-chan as voice actor • 1981 Danpu Wataridori (Truck Driver
Wanderers) as a supporting actor • 1981 Manon by Maeda Yoichi• 1981 Sukkari Sono Ki de (Completely
Serious) Main character• 1981 Natsuno Himitsu (Secrets of Summer)
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Kitano Takeshi as Actor
• 1983 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence as Sgt. Hara
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Violent Cop (1989) • Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Nozawa Hisashi
(and Kitano Takeshi uncredited)
• Photographed by Sasakibara Yasushi
• Edited by Kamiya Nobutaka
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Boiling Point (1990)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi
and Toshio Taniguchi• Shochiku Fuji and Bandai
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• A Scene at the Sea 1991)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi • Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Office Kitano
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Sonatine (1993)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Shochiku Dai’ich Kogyo
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Getting Any (1995)• Directed by Kitano
Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Office Kitano
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Kids Return (1996)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Office Kitano, Bandai, Ota
Publishing
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Hana-bi (1997)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by Yamamoto
Hideo• Edited by Kitano Takeshi
and Ota Yoshinori• Office Kitano, Bandai, TV
Tokyo, Tokyo FM
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Kikujiro (1999) • Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi
and Ota Yoshinori• Office Kitano, Bandai,
Nippon Herald, FM Tokyo
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Brother (2000)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi
and Ota Yoshinori• Bandai, Office Kitano, FM
Tokyo, Little Brother Inc.
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Dolls (2002)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Designed by Isoda Norihiro• Costume by Yamamoto Yoji• Office Kitano, Bandai, TV
Tokyo, FM Tokyo
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Zatoichi (2003) • Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Office Kitano, TV, Asahi
Asahi Broadcasting Co. FM Tokyo, Dentsu
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Takeshi’s (2005)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Costume by Yamamoto Yoji• Office Kitano, Bandai, TV
Asahi, FM Tokyo, Dentsu
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Kantoku Banzai (2007)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by Yanagishima
Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Office Kitano, Bandai, Dentsu,
TV Asahi, FM Tokyo
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Achilles and the Tortoise
(2008)• Directed by Kitano
Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi• Design by Isoda Norihiro• Office Kitano, Bandai, TV
Asahi, FM Tokyo
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Outrage (2010)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi,
Ota Yoshinori• Design by Kurosawa Kazuko• Office Kitano, Warner Bros.
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Kitano Takeshi as Director
• Outrage beyond (2012)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by
Yanagishima Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi,
Ota Yoshinori• Design by Kurosawa Kazuko• Office Kitano, Bandai Visual,
TV Tokyo, Warner Bros.
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Kitano Takeshi as Director• Outrage (2010)• Directed by Kitano Takeshi• Written by Kitano Takeshi• Photographed by Yanagishima
Katsumi• Edited by Kitano Takeshi and
Ota Yoshinori• Costume by Kurosawa Kazuko• Office Kitano, Bandai, TV
Tokyo, FM Tokyo, Omnibus
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Subversion of Genres• Action Film (Cop and Yakuza) - Violent Cop
(1989), Boiling Point (1990), Sonatine (1993), Haba-bi (1997), Brother (2000), Zatoichi (2003), Outrage (2010), Outrage beyond (2012)
• Youth Film - A Scene at the Sea (1991), Kids Return (1996)
• Melodrama - (A Scene at the Sea ), (Hana-bi) (1997), Dolls (2002)
• Slap-stick Comedy - Getting Any? (1995) • Drama on himself - Kikujiro (1999), Takeshi’s
(2005)
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Subversion of Genres• What makes Kitano auteur – making mainly
action films, his films deconstruct genre conventions.
• In his action films, purposes of violence disintegrate – meanings of violence obfuscated – no definite purpose and meanings of violence
• His melodrama – romances are not about love but about the loss of its meaning
• His (autobiographical) films are not about himself, but fictionalize, mystify, and obscure himself.
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Subversion of Genres
• Conventional cinema concepts and traditional genre formulae are questioned, distorted and demolished.
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Subversion of Genres: Violent Cop
• Violent Cop as an cop action thriller• A lone police officer attempts punish a criminal
organization and his own corrupt institution, taking justice into his own hands (in the tradition of Dirty Harry, French Connection)
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Subversion of Genres: Sonatine
• Sonatine as a yakuza action thriller• A Tokyo yakuza was commissioned to take his
men to Okinawa to settle the local dispute between two clans only to find that this is a set up. While he is away, others can take over his territory. (The Yakuza Paper and other gangster films)
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Subversion of Genres
Deviation from the rules of the genre featuring violence and violent actions
Movies with Violent Actions• Devoid of catharsis functioning of violence (Catharsis - Aristotelian concept of pleasure
obtained by releasing heightened tension)→ e.g. justice is done through fulfilling a violent revenge
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Subversion of Genres
→ violence as a spectacle→ violence as a game→ violence as a means to satisfy sadistic / masochistic desire
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Subversion of Genres
• Violence and revenge• e.g. Godfather • The horse that a Hollywood producer owns and
loves is beheaded and placed in his bed, because he refused to use Don Corleone’s protégé for a film.
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Subversion of Genres • Justice taken into one’s own hands
• Dirty Harry • A San Francisco Police
Inspector, Harry Callahan, as tough as nail, is assigned to catch a serial killer. He employs legally dubious violent methods to carry out his duty. They bring out satisfaction among the audience.
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Subversion of Genres
• Violence as a spectacle• e.g. Bonnie and Clyde• Well-choreographed deaths of the hero and
heroine which provokes sadness and sympathy among the audience.
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Subversion of Genres
• Violence as a game• e.g. Tarantino’s films• Virtual violence devoid of reality. Virtuality
and the lack of reality make violence more acceptable.
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Subversion of Genres• Violence as a means to satisfy sado-masochistic desire
• Ultima grida dalla savanna (1975)
• A pseudo-documentary about every sort of shocking events
• The film satisfies the audience’s hidden sado-masochistic desire or tendencies.
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Subversion of GenresViolent Cop• What is the purpose of
violence in this film?• Punishment - this purpose
is undermined by the excessive violence shown by the cop.
The cop and the gangster are equal in their obsession with violence.
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Subversion of Genres
• Revenge - loses its meaning when it loses its sight of what to achieve.
The cop kills his own sister at the end of the film. • Good and evil interchangeable
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Subversion of Genres
• Meanings of violence are further undermined by the frequent inclusion of jokes.
• Ambiguity of violenceIts functionIts morality
• Ambiguity in attitudes towards violence - criticizing or romanticizing? Demystifying or glorifying?
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Subversion of Genres
Sonatine• Opaqueness in narrative, inner psyche of the
characters, and motivation for their actions• Obvious death wish of the protagonist - where
does it come from?
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Subversion of Genres
• Absurd and irrational• No explanation of motives: no cause and effect → Make the meaning of violence unclear and
ambiguous.
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Subversion of Genres
• A retired cop robs a bank in order to give his former colleague, who is now wheelchair bound after he received injury on duty, compensation. He also kills yakuza from who he borrowed money.
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Subversion of Genres• Why does Nishi have to
rob the bank? • For the needs of his wife
who is dying from leukemia?
• To pay back the money that Nishi and his colleague borrowed from the yakuza?
• What were the need for money?
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Subversion of Genres
• Why does Nishi have to kill yakuza? • Is that because he owes them money and cannot
repay? Or because they have insulted him?• Why did he borrow money to start with?
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Kitano and Other Genres
• Melodramas A Scene at the Sea and Hana-bi - blocking the audience from involving in the actions of the film.
• Love unfulfilled because of death or being overshadowed by death
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Kitano and Other Genres• A Scene at the Sea• A part-time garbage
collector, who is deaf and mute, finds a cracked surfboard. He practices surfing and his girlfriend, who is also deaf, watches on. Summer turns autumn. One rainy day, the girl sees her boyfriend surfboard but not him.
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Kitano and Other Genres
• Scarcity of dialogues• Lack of emotional highs and lows• Alienate the viewer as the characters in the film
are emotionally alienated.
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Kitano and Other Genres
• Hana-bi • Action/Melodrama or
Action/Melodrama/Comedy• The film refuses fundamental classification
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Kitano and Other Genres
• Sentimental - but interruptions, ellipses, discontinuities, and frequent flashbacks in narrative prevents the viewer from identifying with characters in the film.
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Kitano and Other Genres
• Biographical and auto-biographical films• Kikujiro is based on the memory of Kitano’s father,
Kikujiro, but its accuracy is doubtful. • It includes many biographical and autobiographical
elements, but they are unreliable.