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Part of a trilogy!

posted 17 years ago by der_bobster
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"Some sketchy details emerging today regarding Kitano Takeshi’s next film and concluding instalment in his self-exploratory trilogy. Although it’s strictly at the conceptual stage, the theme he has in mind is the life of an artist from youth to eventual ruin, and how cruel and melancholy that life can be.

As he did for “Hana-bi”, Kitano is already preparing to paint all of the pictures that would appear in the film. The filmmaker took up painting while hospitalized after his disfiguring motorbike accident in 1994, and has continued to share his interest in art via his long-running TV show “Takeshi no Dare demo Pikaso” (Anyone can be Picasso). (source: Nikkan Sports)"

http://www.ryuganji.net/2007/05/26/more-navel-gazing-from-kitano/

[–] Sanjuro-15 17 years ago

Sounds good, so long as it is just a trilogy and he doesn't spend the rest of his career self-reflecting.

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then again, Takeshi self-reflecting is so entertaining I'd happily keep going to see his movies!

[–] der_bobster 17 years ago

*signed*

[–] Todd-65 8 years ago

Every decent Japanese movie is part of a trilogy. It can be traced back to a combination of Kurosawa's standard, "If it's not worth talking about, it's not worth filming" and an alleged saying attributed to the philosopher Kūkai, who, attempting to reconcile Shinto beliefs with Buddhism, taught that the kami were actually varied aspects of the Buddhas, and insisted that "those natures we address by name are to be spoken of 3 times: before embodiment, the spirit of embodiment, and the drifting away..." The greatest directors in Japan recognize that anything worth talking about, and therefore worth filming, is incomplete until it encompasses all three aspects of those natures humans address by name.

There's even a school of thought amongst diverse literati that the western lore that teaches us that those statements made in good faith "in number three times" by Prophets of the Lord, later equated with Saints of the Church, represent "absolute truth" that cannot be undone "without the direct assurance of God" is merely an abridgment of Kūkai's teachings, but given that Kūkai was addressing these issues around 800 AD, I think it's something of a stretch.