Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film explores Kitano's rise from working-class poverty to superstar of Japanese radio, TV, comedy and journalism, and follows the making of his US-Japanese gangster film, 'Brother'.

• Release date
• May 5, 2000
• Runtime
• 48 min
• Genres
• Documentary, TV Movie
• Director
• Louis Heaton

Cast

Takeshi Kitano Self Joe Hisaishi Self Masayuki Mori Self Kazuyoshi Okuyama Self Nagisa Ōshima Self Jeremy Thomas Self Tom Conti Self Tatyana Ali Self