Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide Inc. has announced that it will take over operations of the Kitano Hotel New York from spring 2023 and will change its name. Under the new management, the Kitano Hotel ...

TOKYO — The mainstream Japanese film industry came in for a surprising volume of criticism Saturday at a Tokyo event intended to celebrate the iconic comedian, actor and director Takeshi Kitano. The ...

There's plenty of evidence that artists can make decent movies – Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor Wood, Julian Schnabel to name a few – but it rarely works the other way around. Looking at Dennis Hopper's ...

The suspect allegedly smashed Kitano’s car several times with a pickax, demanding Takeshi get out of the car. By The Associated Press Tokyo police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked a car ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kitano Takeshi, the 74-year-old icon of Japanese gangster films and TV comedy, has set “Kubi” (Neck) as his next film — and ...

Prime Streaming is releasing Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano's latest htiman crime comedy Broken Rage worldwide on February 13th. This is good news for fans of Japanese cinema and Kitano's ...

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Acclaimed movie director Takeshi Kitano will be appearing in the upcoming game Yakuza 6 and while he definitely looks the part, it's surprising that this didn't happen sooner. The Yakuza games are on ...

Two giant Japanese firms are battling over a historic Midtown hotel. Developer Kitano Construction Corp., owner of the Kitano at 66 Park Ave., has sued the property’s operator of the last couple of ...

"The time of being able to speak up about LGBTQ stuff and sexual harassment has finally come to Japan," says Kitano, as allegations of historical abuse by late talent manager Johnny Kitagawa continue ...

The last time Takeshi Kitano was on the film festival circuit, it was with 2017’s Outrage Coda. Word had it this yakuza drama, the third in a trilogy, was to be his final film. The Japanese ...

Tokyo police have arrested a man who allegedly attacked a car carrying Japanese entertainment icon Takeshi Kitano with a pickax, though nobody was injured, according to media reports. The 74-year-old ...