Glory to the Filmmaker!
- Takeshi Kitano: Beat Takeshi
- Toru Emori
- Kayoko Kishimoto
- Anne Suzuki
- Ren Osugi
- Tetsu Watanabe
- Susumu Terajima
Kantoku! Banzai! (Japanese监督!ばんざい, Eng. Glory to the Filmmaker ) is a film by the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano from the year 2007. Kantoku! Banzai! is a comedic look at Kitano's role as a director.
Action
Director Takeshi has a problem. After he claimed never to turn brutal gangster films, the talent is like it went to be lost. Now he tries out numerous genres, including with love stories and where the sci-fi movies. However, with none of that he is really happy. At the end he decides then for a film which is full of quirky characters. As would be the mother-daughter team, trying tricks to beat down low through life, the Nutty Professor Ida or the wealthy businessman, collecting money for Takeshi. At the end of the film in the film, however, the world is ending, because of a large comet colliding with Earth.
Takeshi end up sitting at the doctor, who only can see that the camera is broken inside his head.
Background
After Takeshi ' a gloomy view of the world both Takeshi was followed with Kantoku! Banzai! now a comedic look. The type of comedy is mainly composed of elements from Japanese Variety shows ( entertainment shows), so the humor is often very shallow and childish.
In this film Kitano ultimately brings only on the canvas, what he has done for the last 30 years in TV. It is exactly the kind of comedy that became famous with the Beat Takeshi at the end of the 70s.
Kitano present the film as " Ultra Variety Movie ". The Reuters news agency said the director, this representation of an unsuccessful filmmakers came out of frustration because none of his films has become a blockbuster. On the other hand, he spoke of the second act of the ongoing " creative destruction " of his career.
Reviews
Christoph Huber wrote of the work on 3 September 2007 in the press as a " Dada Delirium". Ronnie Scheib in Variety called it on September 2, 2007 " solipsistic " and confusing, especially to Western eyes.
" He should have known better. And yet he has been here the second movie about themselves, one after the other. [ ... ] It really was time to do something else. "
" Takeshi, however, has constantly a wooden doll its self next to him and allows them to sometimes act in his stead. A brilliant idea that should be countered once with dolls as a spectator substitute. "
" Granted, he says his admirers, the cinema is able to do everything, but why bother and who cares anyway? With this kind of statement is not just attracts the masses in the multiplexes "
" [ ... ] Hardly a film. "
Awards
International Film Festival of Venice in 2007
- Erstverleihung Glory to the Filmmaker! for Takeshi Kitano