The dark side of Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano

Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano, who brought the yakuza gangster genre to a global public, says he could have made his life in the underworld had it not been for his mother. The star of "Violent Cop", "Sonatine" and "Hana-Bi" makes the revelation in a new book, "Kitano by Kitano", written by French journalist Michel Temmam.Duration: 02:32

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[yamamoto3000]

Kitano was very poor,when he was a child,and his father belonged to the yakuzza,in the early fifties.

[superspudz2000]

play the nintendo NES game "beat takashi", for more information

[kenichisaitohchenii]

Japanese seems so culm,but they have so strong passion inside.especially toward arts,cuisine,technology,sex,an­d entertainments.more than some people of latinos.he's one of them.

[Steadno]

ad...seeya!