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Asian Movie Pulse Talks #13: Takeshi Kitano’s Violent Cop

April 30, 2021
Panos Kotzathanasis

In the thirteenth episode of AMP Talks, Panos Kotzathanasis Tom Wilmot and Rouven Linnarz discuss 's

  1. How he ended up directing in the stead of
  2. The similarities of the movie and Azuma with Dirty Harry
  3. The deconstruction of the role of the policeman, the roles of Azuma, Iwaki and Kikuchi
  4. Violence, irony and comedy
  5. Azuma vs Kiyohiro
  6. Memorable scenes: the slapping scene, the shoot-out, chasing a suspect, the duel scene
  7. Kitano as Azuma
  8. as Kiyohiro, as Nito, as Akari, as Kikuchi
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Panos Kotzathanasis

My name is Panos Kotzathanasis and I am Greek. Being a fan of Asian cinema and especially of Chinese kung fu and Japanese samurai movies since I was a little kid, I cultivated that love during my adolescence, to extend to the whole of SE Asia.

Starting from my own blog in Greek, I then moved on to write for some of the major publications in Greece, and in a number of websites dealing with (Asian) cinema, such as Taste of Cinema, Hancinema, EasternKicks, Chinese Policy Institute, and of course, Asian Movie Pulse. in which I still continue to contribute.

In the beginning of 2017, I launched my own website, Asian Film Vault, which I merged in 2018 with Asian Movie Pulse, creating the most complete website about the Asian movie industry, as it deals with almost every country from East and South Asia, and definitely all genres.

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