Takeshi KITANO 北野武
Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen
龍三と七人の子分たち
Nippon Cinema ª
Former yakuza boss Ryuzo is living a boring life in retirement. After a new generation of gangsters starts to terrorize what used to be Ryuzo’s turf, he assembles his former brothersinarms, leading to a showdown between the old and the young. Marking a return to his comedy roots, Takeshi KITANO deals with the subject of an aging society through the lens of his favorite genre, the yakuza film.
Winner of the Nippon Cinema Award
2016
龍三と七人の子分たち
Ryuzo to shichinin no kobuntachi
Japan 2015
110 minutes
Production
Office Kitano, Bandai Visual, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
World sales
Celluloid Dreams
Cast
Tatsuya FUJI, Masaomi KONDO, Akira NAKAO, Toru SHINAGAWA, Takeshi KITANO
About Takeshi KITANO
北野武
Takeshi KITANO, born in Tokyo in 1947, is a film director, actor, author, television and radio host, painter, and comedian. His directing debut VIOLENT COP (1989) was a huge hit on the international scene. His follow-up feature HANA-BI (1997) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while ZATOICHI (2003 / NC ’04) earned him a Silver Lion. The historical drama KUBI (2023 / NC ’24) is based on KITANO’s own novel of the same name and had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.