Glory to the Filmmaker!

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Glory to the Filmmaker!

original theatrical poster
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Produced by Masayuki Mori
Written by Takeshi Kitano
Starring Beat Takeshi
Susumu Terajima
Yuki Uchida
Anne Suzuki
Ren Osugi
Kayoko Kishimoto
Editing by Takeshi Kitano
Distributed by Office Kitano
Release date(s) Flag of Japan June 2, 2007
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Official website
IMDb profile

Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい! Kantoku · Banzai! ?) is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano.

In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film, Kitano was also the first recipient of the Glory to the Filmmaker! award. [1]

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Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.

The comedy, presented as an "ultra variety movie"[2], crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film, in a similar fashion to Kitano's 1995 parody Getting Any?. Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of [his] manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as [his] last feature." [3]


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