Glory to the Filmmaker!
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Duration Prequel Takeshis Language Japanese | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Running time 1h 48m Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date June 2, 2007 (2007-06-02) Cast Similar movies Related Takeshi Kitano movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Style
The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film, in a similar fashion to Kitano's 1995 parody Getting Any? Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of [his] manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as [his] last feature."
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.
References
Glory to the Filmmaker! WikipediaGlory to the Filmmaker! IMDb Glory to the Filmmaker! themoviedb.org