Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano (北野武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), also known in Japan as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi), is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beat, before going solo and becoming one of the three biggest comedians in the country. After several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989's Violent Cop and garnered international acclaim for Sonatine (1993). He was not widely accepted as an accomplished director in Japan until Hana-bi won the Golden Lion in 1997. In October 2017, Kitano completed his Outrage crime trilogy with the release of Outrage Coda. He is also known internationally for hosting the game show Takeshi's Castle (1986–1990) and starring in the film Battle Royale (2000).

Known For: Directing

Born: Tokyo, Japan, 1947-01-18

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Hara	73
2	1983	The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor	Man at Racetrack	67
3	1983	The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo	Kiyoshi Ôkubo	0
4	1985	Demon	Yajima	77
5	1985	Jesus' Ark	Takeyoshi Sengoku	0
6	1986	No More Comics!	Police	60
7	1989	Violent Cop	Azuma Ryosuke	72
8	1990	Hoshi wo tsugu mono	Yama no hito	0
9	1990	Boiling Point	Uehara	69
10	1992	Erotic Liaisons	Okuyama	47
11	1993	Sonatine	Aniki Murakawa	75
12	1995	Getting Any?	Scientist	57
13	1995	Johnny Mnemonic	Takahashi	58
14	1995	Gonin	Ichiro Kyoya	67
15	1998	Tokyo Eyes	Yakusa	67
16	1999	Zankyo		0
17	1999	Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō: 1999 Nostradamus Senritsu no Daiyogen Mysterious Unbelievable		0
18	1999	Kiseki Taiken! Anbiribabō: Kyōfu Eizō Kaiki Shashin Korekushon		0
19	1999	Kikujiro	Kikujiro	75
20	1999	Taboo	Toshizo Hijikata	66
21	2000	Brother	Aniki Yamamoto	71
22	2000	Battle Royale	Kitano	73
23	2000	The 300 million yen robbery		0
24	2001	Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE	Self	0
25	2003	Battle Royale II: Requiem	Kitano	50
26	2003	The Final Battleground — Making of Battle Royale II	Self	0
27	2003	Zatoichi	Zatoichi / Ichi	72
28	2004	Arakimentari	Self	63
29	2004	Izo	Chancellor	61
30	2004	Blood and Bones	Joon-pyong Kim	66
31	2005	Takeshis'	Beat Takeshi / Mr. Kitano	61
32	2007	Glory to the Filmmaker!	Takeshi / Yakuza / Father / Ninja / Detective / Astronomer	63
33	2008	Achilles and the Tortoise	Machisu	70
34	2010	Outrage	Otomo	69
35		In Your Blood: Hoki Naiden		0
36	1969	Go, Go Second Time Virgin	Gang Member	67
37	1980	Makoto-chan		80
38	1981	The Dump Truck Rascal		50
39	1981	Manon	Shinobu	0
40	1981	Completely... With That Air!		0
41	1982	Summer Secrets		50
42	1982	School in the Crosshairs		0
43	1985	Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto	Hara (archive footage)	70
44	1985	Joke with a Sorrowful Heart	Hiroshi Igarashi	0
45	1988	The Boss' Wife	Shoji Sugimoto, Hitman	50
46	1990	KILL THEM ALL		0
47	1991	Kim's War	Kim Hyi-ro	0
48	1991	Shoko Asahara with Takeshi		0
49	1992	A Legend of Turmoil	Kiichirou Yashiro	75
50	1992	Dioxin from Fish!		0
51	1993	Many Happy Returns	Daisuke Shiba	68
52	1996	Making-of Kids Return	Himself	68
53	1997	Fireworks	Yoshitaka Nishi	77
54	1999	Jam Session (The Official Bootleg of Kikujiro)		66
55	1999	The Unpredictable Takeshi Kitano	Self	70
56	2000	Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano		0
57	2000	Making of 'Battle Royale'	Self	0
58	2002	Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso	Niju Menso	50
59	2002	Kichiku		0
60	2004	Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!	Self	80
61	2004	The Golden Cups: One More Time	Himself	0
62	2007	To Each His Own Cinema	The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique")	65
63	2007	Dots and Lines	Jutaro Torikai	0
64	2008	The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit	Take-Majin (voice)	49
65	2008	What the War Meant	Hideki Tojo	0
66	2009	Takeshi's Castle Vol. 1		0
67	2010	Kikoku	Private First Class Oomiya	35
68	2012	A Special Day	Self	60
69	2012	Dearest	Teruo Sugino	68
70	2012	Beyond Outrage	Otomo	70
71	2013	Trespassing Bergman	Self	66
72	2013	Miwa: A Japanese Icon	Himself	63
73	2014	Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel	Rokuro Fujisawa	40
74	2014	In Between Mountains and Oceans	Himself	0
75	2014	The 8th Floor	Self	0
76	2014	Morning		80
77	2015	Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen	Detective Murakami	64
78	2015	Mozu The Movie	Daruma	69
79	2015	Aka Medaka	Tatekawa Danshi	79
80	2016	A Living Promise	Detective Koichiro Iwase	0
81	2016	While the Women Are Sleeping	Sahara	57
82	2016	Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special		60
83	2017	Ghost in the Shell	Chief Daisuke Aramaki	61
84	2017	Prison Break	Urata	58
85	2017	Ghost in the Shell: Hard-Wired Humanity - Making Ghost in the Shell	self	0
86	2017	Outrage Coda	Otomo	68
87	2017	Plankton Salesmen	Self (archive footage)	0
88	2020	Citizen Kitano	Self	75
89	2023	Kubi	Hashiba Hideyoshi	70
90	2024	Broken Rage	Nezumi	67

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Golden Horse Awards	Self	0
2	1986	Takeshi's Castle	Count Takeshi	92
3	1989	Beat Takeshi Presents TV Tackle		0
4	1992	Kitano fan kurabu	Self	0
5	1992	北野ファンクラブ		0
6	1993	Today's Close-Up	出演	0
7	1998	加ト・けん・たけしの世紀末スペシャル!!		0
8	2000	The Story of One Century		0
9	2002	Takeshi's Castle		77
10	2003	Musashi	Munisai Shinmen	83
11	2003	MXC		69
12	2012	Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon	黑须贯太郎	74
13	2012	日曜ゴールデンで何やってんだテレビ		0
14	2014	オモクリ監督～O－Creator's TV Show～		0
15	2015	たけしのこれがホントのニッポン芸能史		0
16	2018	Kiseki taiken! Unbelievable	Storyteller	0
17	2019	Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story	古今亭志生	78
18	2020	たけしのその時カメラは回っていた		0
19	2023	Takeshi's Castle Japan		60
20		Kodai bunmei Misuterī Takeshi no shin sekai nana fushigi dai hyakka		0