Interview with Beat Takeshi

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

For anyone interested Via The Onion

In the late '70s, Japan's Takeshi Kitano became a comedic superstar under the name Beat Takeshi, performing with Kaneko Kiyoshi as "The Two Beats." By the turn of the millennium, Kitano had established himself as one of Japan's most important directors. In between, he's written novels and newspaper columns, recorded albums, and exhibited his paintings, all while sustaining a career as an actor and TV personality.

This renaissance-man enthusiasm for every kind of artistic creation has proven invaluable in Kitano's directorial career, even though it began by accident. While starring in the 1989 police thriller Violent Cop, the inexperienced Kitano assumed the film's reins when the original director left the project. Though the movie itself is about as simple as the title suggests, Violent Cop reveals a director in full control of his style: Long takes build tension, while long silences reveal an emotional complexity that goes beyond dialogue.

[torasan]

Beat Takeshi is an over-rated fake intellectual who cannot act, cannot direct, all he can do is appear on TV as an over-exposed host. He is a symbol of all that is wrong with Japanese culture. That he has pulled the wool over some people in the West who idolize this 4th rate nobody, amazing!

And he's ugly to boot. What does anyone see in this guy? Total nothing Japanese show biz. The only thing I like about him is his name! BEAT TAKESHI. For that, he gets all my props.

[Andocrates]

Beat Takeshi is an over-rated fake intellectual who cannot act, cannot direct, all he can do is appear on TV as an over-exposed host. He is a symbol of all that is wrong with Japanese culture. That he has pulled the wool over some people in the West who idolize this 4th rate nobody, amazing!

And he's ugly to boot. What does anyone see in this guy? Total nothing Japanese show biz. The only thing I like about him is his name! BEAT TAKESHI. For that, he gets all my props.

What's up your ass? Beat is the man.

[torasan]

See? that's what I mean.

The man? When Beat dies, he will not be remembered for anything. He only keeps his star power alive by being alive and fooling the J-public forever. After his death, he will hardly be remembered. He's just a show boy, geinojin.

But yes, some people do like him, and his films, and his tv stuff. let's agree to disagree. I just think that someone like Murakami Haruki has a lot more to say about modern real Japan than Beato.

I've never read anything he writes that makes sense. He's pure movement without substance.

IMHO. SMILE

Then again, each to his her own. If you like him, cool.

[Taro Toporific]

What's up your ass? Beat is the man.

Googlism for: "Beat Takeshi"
--is the umbella terrorist for the Ages
--is too found of ejime/torture of his kohai to make it "funny"
--motorcycle drunk-diving, braindamaged 'tard twist face
--didn't need to act to play Sgt. Gengo Hara in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
-- can make great films in which he DOESN'T star, and stars in good films he didn't make
--is the Spawn of Satan's Hemorrhoids

[torasan]

--motorcycle drunk-diving, braindamaged 'tard twist face

Wasn't Beat the guy involved in that drunken scooter crash after screwing the nightlights out of that busty 90 cm F cup boobtoober What's Her Name Who Never Showed Her Nipples one drunken night in 1993? He barely survived that accident, close to death in fact, but he did say in later interviews that the crash had sobered him up and made him appreciate life much more.

The guy has promise.

He might still make a decent movie someday. Though I doubt it. He is just not a storyteller. He is not even a good writer. He is just a show and tell talking head, and at that, he's great!
Nonstop.

Funny googlisms taro sir!