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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, Ittoku Kishibe as Nito, as Akari, as Kikuchi
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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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