
Film | Wide Angle Aug 8, 2019
Marking 30 years since Takeshi Kitano's debut feature, 'Violent Cop'
by Mark Schilling
On Aug. 12, 1989, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano's debut as a director, "Violent Cop," was released in Japan. Kitano was already famous here as a TV comic and emcee, and was known abroad for his role as a brutal POW camp guard in Nagisa Oshima's ...