The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010).
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Becoming Lost in Tokyo
- 1. Time, Space and Whatever
- 2. Flowering Blood
- 3. Intense Alterity
- 4. Starring Kitanos
- 5. This is the Sea
- Conclusion: Standing Outside Office Kitano
- Postscript: I Welcome the Pain of it Already
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
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