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Glory to the Filmmaker!

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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTakeshi Kitano
Written byTakeshi Kitano
Produced byMasayuki Mori
StarringBeat Takeshi
Tōru Emori
Susumu Terajima
Yuki Uchida
Anne Suzuki
Ren Osugi
CinematographyKatsumi Yanagishima
Edited byTakeshi Kitano
Music byShinichirô Ikebe
Production
companies
Distributed byTokyo Theatres
Office Kitano
Release date
  • June 2, 2007 (2007-06-02)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい!, Kantoku · Banzai!) is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is the second film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, following Takeshis', and concluding with Achilles and the Tortoise.

Style

The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film, in a similar fashion to Kitano's 1995 parody Getting Any?[citation needed] Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of [his] manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as [his] last feature."[1]

Plot

Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.

Cast

Reception

In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film, Kitano was also the first recipient of the Glory to the Filmmaker! award.[2]

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