Kantoku! Banzai!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Glory to the Filmmaker |
| Original title | 監督！ ば ん ざ い |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK - |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano |
| script | Takeshi Kitano |
| production | Masayuki Mori |
| music | Joe Hisaishi |
| camera | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| cut | Takeshi Kitano |
| occupation | |
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Kantoku! Banzai! ( jap. 監督！ ば ん ざ い , English Glory to the Filmmaker ) is a 2007 film by the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano . Kantoku! Banzai ! is a comedic look at Kitano's role as a director.
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Director Takeshi has a problem. After claiming never to make brutal gangster films again, he lost the talent to do so. Now he's trying out numerous genres, including: a. with love stories and in that of sci-fi movies. However, he is not really satisfied with any of the above. At the end he then decides on a film that is full of bizarre characters. There is the mother-daughter team that tries to get through life cheaply with tricks, the crazy professor Ida or the rich businessman for whom Takeshi collects money. However, at the end of the film in the film, the world ends due to a large comet that collides with the earth.
At the end, Takeshi is sitting with the doctor, who can only determine that the camera in his head is broken.
background
After Takeshis' was a gloomy view of the world of both Takeshis, follows with Kantoku! Banzai! now a comedic look. The type of comedy consists mainly of elements from Japanese variety shows (entertainment shows), which is why the humor is often very shallow and childish.
In this film, Kitano only brings to the screen what he has done on TV for the last 30 years. It's exactly the kind of comedy that Beat Takeshi made famous with in the late 1970s.
Kitano presented the film as an "Ultra Variety Movie" . The director replied to the Reuters news agency that this portrayal of an unsuccessful filmmaker was created out of frustration because none of his films had become a blockbuster . On the other hand, he spoke of the second act of ongoing "creative destruction" in his career.
Reviews
Christoph Huber wrote about the work on September 3, 2007 in Die Presse as " Dada - Delirium " . Ronnie Scheib called it “ solipsistic ” and confusing in Variety on September 2, 2007 , especially for Western eyes.
“He should have known better. And yet he has the second film about himself, in a row. [...] It really would be time to do something different. "
“However, Takeshi always has a wooden doll of himself next to him and sometimes lets it act in his place. A brilliant idea that you should counter with dolls as a substitute for the audience. "
“Admittedly, he tells his admirers, cinema can do anything these days, but why, and who cares anyway? This kind of statement doesn't exactly lure the masses into the multiplexes "
"[...] hardly a film actually."
Awards
Venice International Film Festival 2007
- First award Glory to the Filmmaker! for Takeshi Kitano
Web links
- Kantoku! Banzai! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- OutNow.CH: Information about Glory to the Filmmaker! - Kantoku Banzai!
- Asia Filmfest: Glory to the Filmmaker!
- Official Site (Japanese)
- "Beat" Takeshi Kitano in conversation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silvia Aloisi: Film pokes fun at cinema industry. In: Reuters . August 31, 2007, accessed June 12, 2008 .
- ↑ Mark Schilling: Japanese comic titans double the laughs. In: The Japan Times Online. June 8, 2007, accessed June 8, 2007 (English): "" Kantoku Banzai, "a film that Kitano has described as part of the ongoing" creative destruction "of his career, beginning in 2005 with" Takeshis'. ""
- ↑ a b Ronnie Scheib: Glory to the Filmmaker! (No longer available online.) In: Variety . September 2, 2007, archived from the original on June 30, 2008 ; accessed on June 12, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IMDb .
- ↑ Christoph Huber: Venice Film Festival: The real horror of fake pictures. In: The press . September 3, 2007, accessed June 12, 2008 .
- ^ Todd Brown: TIFF Report: GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER Review. (No longer available online.) In: Twitch. September 16, 2007, archived from the original on May 28, 2008 ; accessed on June 12, 2008 (English): "[...] he really should know better. And yet here he is with his second successive film about himself. […] It's really time to move on now “ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Peter Zander: Sex games and spies. In: The world . August 31, 2007, accessed June 8, 2008 .
- ^ Dan Fainaru: Glory To The Filmmaker (Kantoku Banzai). (No longer available online.) In: ScreenDaily.com. September 26, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 12, 2008 : “Granted, he tells his admirers, cinema can do everything nowadays, but what for, and who cares, anyway? This type of message is unlikely to entice audiences to fill up the multiplexes [...] "
- ↑ Quint: Takeshi Kitano is the man and he a new movie called GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER that played Toronto! Anton Sirius will tell ya 'more! In: Ain't It Cool News. September 11, 2007, accessed on June 12, 2008 (English): "[...] barely a movie at all, really"
- ↑ Mark Schilling: Venice to hand out Kitano prize. (No longer available online.) In: Variety Asia Online. August 24, 2007, archived from the original on September 3, 2007 ; accessed on June 7, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gautaman Bhaskaran: Glory to the Filmmaker (Kantoku Banzai!). In: The Hollywood Reporter . September 5, 2007, archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; accessed on June 7, 2008 .
