Quentin Tarantino on Sonatine

[@chsstrr9577]

Love this movie, Boiling Point, and Hanabi. Was a military brat so I always watch this when I’m missing Okinawa

[@dd-lv6ee]

love the unique atmosphere kitano films has

[@DarkAlley92]

I would argue violent cop is up there as one of the best directorial debut ever

[@spacebase00]

No reason to argue. You're 100% correct!

[@gabrielesegapeli4053]

What's amazing to me is the context. When Violent Cop came out, Kitano was "beat Takeshi": he was famous as a comedian and creator of Takeshi's Castle. Nobody took him seriously, and after he moved on to direct, replacing Fukasaku, they had to think, "this is going to be a huge flop." And instead he came up with a sensational noir that launched an even more extraordinary career.

[@ericg1100]

@@gabrielesegapeli4053it was a jordan peele moment… or jordan peele had a beat takeshi moment

[@gabrielesegapeli4053]

@@ericg1100 Uhm 🤔

[@ericg1100]

@@gabrielesegapeli4053 ????

[@loganperry5167]

A somewhat low-key & arty gangster film,also intoxicating. This is a fine intro, thanks JWBS & QT

[@tokyodirect4594]

He keeps saying TaKAHShi. lol Still a legend. A film scholar.

[@23squidoo]

lol that was buggin me 2

[@panuraty6283]

Quentin spent 4 minutes without saying anything even remotely interesting, and continuously misspelled Takeshi...

[@MrVIIsevenVII]

Takeshi "Beat" Kitano is a f*cking LEGEND!

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

"Brother", is one of my favorite flicks.

[@oxymoron9097]

People pull the trigger without hesitation and die indifferently. Even if we cling to life like waves, death is always there, like a calm sea. Rather than a sense of despair leading up to annihilation, there is a clear beauty that cannot be expressed through dialogue alone. Personally, I think it's a masterpiece among Kitano's films, and I want you to see it before you die.

[@philleotardo8760]

Violent Cop is my fav. I also like how beat Takeshi always carries a 1911.

[@garrybaldy327]

An old clip. You can tell QT has only just discovered Takeshi Kitano. For me, he burst onto the scene with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, and then Violent Cop - well before Sonatine.

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

But of course, he's not going to mention an anti-war movie starring David Bowie. The guy is for better and worse too fixated on what he likes.

[@nerdistry]

You can tell by the fact that he thinks his name is Tak*a*shi

[@adolfwigga]

​@@bluemooninthedaylight8073opposed to being fixated on things you don't like?

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

​@@adolfwigga He's too fixated on exploitation to a determent. I like some of his movies, but he doesn't strike me as someone who's willing to go beyond exploitation and mainly crime movie aesthetics. Occasionally he'll make a movie like One Upon a Time In Hollywood, but that's a rarity where he's restraining himself to a degree. Hence, why I said for better and worse. Better in that he can make some fun, pulpy stuff, and worse because he really cannot do any other kind of film. He's limited.

[@adolfwigga]

@@bluemooninthedaylight8073 why should he go beyond that? So he should make something he doesn't like? I don't get your point. What should he make instead? I get he's considered a hack but God damn.

[@robbo03]

Going to give this a watch. Thanks QT and JWBS for sharing. Any others by Kitano I should watch too?

[@solharv7817]

Hana-Bi (Fireworks) is a really great one

[@robbo03]

@@solharv7817 thanks man I'll take a look at that too

[@postmodernrecycler]

Hana-Bi is his opus magnum, to me, but Sonatine is a masterwork and lucky is the person who sees it for the first time.

[@fersatando]

Kikujiro is really cool, although very different...

[@jaustmike9001]

HanaBi is the epitome of Kitano's style. If QT is known for Pulp Fiction, Kitano is known for Hanabi

[@Casper0123]

He was the biggest comedian star in Japan then he started making movies around 35. He is a fking genius.

[@Casper0123]

Sonatine, Silent sea ,Hanabi those are amazing movies .

[@jmssun]

All his mob movies are incredible

[@tylerdordon99]

This is my favourite Kitano movie.

[@Levipaulsen]

Weirdly enough i was literally just researching this film for cinematographic purposes, beautiful Kodak stock with Japanese processing

[@GaxMiu]

Violent Cop, i believe his first film... is an aamazing work as well... not in the yakuza world, but in the corrupt policemen...

[@henrikeriksson6717]

My understanding is that when he’s doing comedy he’s “Beat” Takeshi. When he’s doing serious films he’s Takeshi Kitano

[@akshayde]

That's the school teacher from the Japanese OG hunger games. Man that movie was amazing. Though the manga was amazinger!!

[@Csimon2429]

I liked Fireworks (Hanabi) a little more but all his Yakuza films are top shelf. Also, Beat Takeshi & Tadanobu Asano are phenomenal in the 2003's "Zatoichi" remake as well.

[@maxtubb]

I need to see Sonatine but I also need to see Fireworks with Beat Takashi but he does play a role in Yakuza 6.

[@my_tube9405]

I think it is a really good movie. It an oddly touching story. When you watch it there are some paintings in the movie. Beat Takashi painted them. - (It is on internet archive with English subs.)

[@postmodernrecycler]

Fireworks is hot stuff! My favorite Kitano. Perfect balance of nihilism and poetics.

[@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch]

Fireworks sounds too dull. Just use the original title - Hana-bi. Way more lovely.

[@sameoldskies]

Wonderful movie from amazing Takeshi. I would also recommend slightly more light and poetic “Kikujiro” and “A Scene at the Sea” from him, with magnificent soundtrack from Joe Hisaishi.

[@gabrielesegapeli4053]

Kikujiro Is my favorite, the ending is just a masterpiecd

[@CaptainTae]

"Right you are, Ken".

[@tsedubgyatso]

😂

[@matiaspage]

He keeps saying "Tekashi" when it's "Takeshi" and it's driving me nuts. But other than that all great points. Kitano is a legend.

[@RyanMichero]

I KNOW, totally bothering me too, I keep wishing he is going to say it right once or just stop saying the name.

[@Dustin_N]

Isn't it Takeshi and not Takashi? Have I been saying it wrong for years?

[@tonypine3434]

Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano

[@marzilyas]

No, you're correct, Tarantino is just butchering the shit out of it like he often does with foreign names and words

[@husky4805]

Especially with Japanese names, he called Tomoyasu Hotei "Tomosini Hoei" lmao

[@Levipaulsen]

It's Takeshi, but my take would be that Tino probably has enough of an accent that he may just be bending it, plus if I'm being honest Takeshi is awkward as fuck phonetically and doesn't sound good and Takashi rolls off the tongue

[@sad99sh24]

Takashi's Rock face as Buster Keaton cast in a yakuza movie

[@zerodreaming]

All of Kitano's Yakuza films (and many of his non-Yakuza films) are worth checking out. Sonatine isn't the most accessible. I personally started with Brother, which was meant to be his breakout film in the West and which is partly in English. It's a flawed movie, but it did work in giving me the Kitano bug and left me eager to see more. From there, Hana-Bi is a good stop, if you like his general moviemaking style -- or the Outrage Trilogy, if you like the Yakuza killing stuff. Zatoichi is whimsical and weird but overall on the more accessible side of his stuff, too. Violent Cop, Boiling Point, and Sonatine are strange movies that are difficult to classify. They are three of my favorites, and Boiling Point is probably my favorite of the three. It makes sense to me Tarantino responds to Sonatine in particular, because it's very much a 'hang out' movie, which I know is a quasi-genre he likes, a movie where it's really more about just spending time with the characters and the 'story' is kind of just a backdrop. Like Tarantino, Kitano in Sonatine is very interested in hit-men doing non-hitmen-sh*t, just goofing around while in hiding during a gang war.

[@davedanger4414]

I think Sonatine or Violent Cop are a good introduction. I first saw Zatoichi then Violent Cop then Sonatine. Sonatine is by far my favorite. It might even crack my list of favorite movies of all time. I think they are all easy watches.

[@corrado]

it's my favorite Kitano film... it's sad how many people won't watch it, because they're slow readers. I'd love to share it but I'm surrounded by stupid people.

[@loganperry5167]

Don't give up on them,find the films that will get through to them,those titles must be out there.Sharing a film in an intimate,cozy setting or in room full of people,is one of the affirming experiences.

[@phillyfrenchy6053]

Sonatine is Brilliant, but Hana Bi is a freaking masterpiece

[@ConkerKing]

Takeshi's Challenge is best Nintendo game !!

[@NicolasCuevas]

Dolls is a masterpiece

[@swissnikk8412]

His name is Takeshi, not Takashi. Also his name is actually Takeshi Kitano.

[@perkyporkpie]

As I listen to this I am looking at my signed framed photo of Kitano

[@JEQvideos]

Sonatine (so-nah-ti-ney). Takeshi (tah-ke-shi) not Takashi.

[@playedout148]

Love those Outrage movies.

[@relaxitsonlyart]

sonatine came out before fiction 😂

[@RyanMichero]

Quentin, love you man, but it's TakESHi, not TakASHi.

[@De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch]

No one cares

[@YY-bl1is]

武👍

[@seijunsejuki]

This must've been pre-cocaine Tarantino - he's not nearly as insufferable and annoying as he usually is (talking three hundred miles an hour, saying "right?" five times per sentence, etc)

[@damazywlodarczyk]

Sonatine didn't work. It was a gangster drama + kids having fun on the beach movie.

[@theswede5402]

Sorry but i didnt like this movie, it was just weird and slow to me.

[@maajkemii]

my fav Kitano movie is Kids Return

[@pkactus]

beat is. going? Q, he went there, you are just following behind

[@intothedragon]

Tarantino is a clown. He ripped of all these guys and the sheeple fell for it.