Glory to the Filmmaker!

No one ever said that filmmaking is easy, especially Takeshi Kitano. Comic and cinematic mastermind Kitano plays himself in the role of a filmmaker searching for the perfect film. Kitano is faced with the difficult task of creating a box-office hit after announcing his decision to stop making gangster movies, the genre for which he is best known. The film begins to jump through the genres of films that he has worked within, and this in turn creates retrospective of recent Japanese cinema. Kitano plods through his potential ideas, but his strange directing techniques fail to get any financing. He finally decides to tell the story of two women con artists who try to take down an “honest man” (played by “Beat” Takeshi – Kitano's actor alter-ego). Strange and hilarious, Kitano's film is very much a series of vignettes that try to define the problems facing Japanese cinema today and causing the country's film industry to languish. GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER! truly shines a light on the glory that each filmmaker should have when working at the peak of their craft. (In Japanese with English subtitles) – WFG