Miike and Kitano have made Japanese Kill Bill?

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is it true? somebody told me that Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano think that Kill Bill is rubbish so they made their version, to 'show tarantino how it's done'. Miike directed it, and Kitano had lead role. It's the latest Miike movie (one on the top of IMDB.com list that says completed)...

― ricardo f, Monday, 26 April 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Kitano plays a blonde white woman? This I have to see!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 April 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Kitano and Miike - together at last!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

it's called:
Izô: Kaosu mataha fujôri no kijin (2004)

details at:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0377079/

― ricardo f, Monday, 26 April 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this was a remake of Hitokiri, the 1969 film by Hideo Gosha. (The movie was called Tenchu in the US.)

Were they inspired by Kill Bill to try and do something better? I'd be very interested to know more.

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I remember reading that it was in production before Kill Bill came out. Sounds like someone trying to get a little more hype drummed up.....

They were going to make a version of Zatoichi together but Miike dropped out so Kitano did it alone and this was like their fallback project.

― David Nolan (David N.), Monday, 26 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless, a Miike-Kitano pairing is pretty darn exciting news.

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Raising a thread from the dead....

Watched my first Kitano film last night, "Sonatine". I was kind of mixed on my feelings about it. There were certain scenes that I thought were brilliant (Russian Roulette on the beach, the roman candle battle), but I was put off by the soundtrack and the TV-movie type camerawork. I watched this film first because I was told it was one of his best--is this true or was I misinformed.

BabyBuddha, if you're out there somewhere, we miss you!

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sonatine" is one of his best, or at least one of his more interesting films.
Though for me its an uncomfortable blend of genre elements and Kitano straining too hard for a poetic style...his stuff is an acquired taste, I think.

Maybe you should try "Dolls" next. No Yakuza stuff..

― David N (David N.), Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

cmon, dolls is the epitome of "straining too hard for a poetic style". go for hana bi instead

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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