Glory to the Filmmaker!

Infobox Film
name = Glory to the Filmmaker!


caption = original theatrical poster
director = Takeshi Kitano
producer = Masayuki Mori
writer = Takeshi Kitano
narrator =
starring = Beat Takeshi
Susumu Terajima
Yuki Uchida
Anne Suzuki
Ren Osugi
Kayoko Kishimoto
music =
cinematography =
editing = Takeshi Kitano
distributor = Office Kitano
released = flagicon|Japan June 2, 2007
runtime =
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website = http://www.office-kitano.co.jp/banzai/
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0996435nihongo|"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. [ [http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1943/1/ Venice to hand out Kitano prize] "Variety Asia Online]

Plot

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" [ [http://www.office-kitano.co.jp/banzai/cover.html Office Kitano] ] , 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 [Takeshis'| [his] last feature] ." [ [http://www.ryuganji.net/2007/03/22/is-it-beat-or-kitano-takeshi-on-kantoku-banzai/ "Is it ‘Beat’ or ‘Kitano’? Takeshi on “Kantoku - Banzai!”" Ryuganji.net] ]

ee also

*J-horror
*Always Sanchōme no Yūhi

References

External links

*ja icon [http://www.office-kitano.co.jp/banzai/trailer.html Movie trailer at Official site]
* [http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20070602TDY19003.htm Review by Aaron Gerow, Daily Yomiuri Online]
* [http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/tiff-report-glory-to-the-filmmaker-review/ Kantoku Banzai reviewed at Twitch]