Chapter 93 Takeshi Kitano: Tenderness and Violence

Takeshi Kitano has two sides. One side is violent.His films are brutal and violent, with violence, killing, blood plasma, and death appearing at any time. When "Heinous and Inhumane" was released in Cannes, the reporter said that the audience was thinking every minute, "What cruel way will Takeshi Kitano kill the next one?" People?" His character was surly and flamboyant. In December 1986, Friday Photo Weekly reported his scandal, and he led his men to the newspaper office to beat the editor and reporter, and was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year suspension.He is bohemian, claiming to be the "No. 1 Poison Tongue". In the collection of essays "Poison Tongue Takeshi", he scolded politicians and commented on social phenomena, claiming to become a "sexy old man". In February 2004, at a certain film awards ceremony, when awarding the "Best AV Actress Award for Leading AV", she touched the left breast of the award-winning actress Haruna Mai in public, creating the most famous lace news of the year.

The other side is gentle.His paintings show this kind of tenderness very vividly.He likes to draw, especially flowers. There are his paintings in the movies "Summer of Kikujiro" and "Hanabi".He painted cherry blossoms, sunflowers, calla lilies, fields of wildflowers, fireworks, and animals with heads of various flowers. In 2010, these paintings, these flowers, and his childlike installations were exhibited in Paris.One side is violent, the other side is gentle, the other side is rough, and the other side is naive. The epigram of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon: "In me the tiger sniffs the rose." (In me the tiger sniffs the rose.), if Need a specific image, he is one of the candidates.

Takeshi Kitano became a painter when he was almost fifty years old. Before that, he was busy filling his resume with the identities we are familiar with: comedian, actor, director. He was born in a family of craftsmen who made bows and arrows. After the war, his family changed to a painter. He often went to paint with his father Kikujiro.His family is poor and his life is not happy. Zhang Chu’s can also be regarded as a portrayal of his family. Once, his sister bought a Christmas cake and came home. His drunken father crushed the cake with his foot: “It’s a foreigner’s shit. !" But maybe it's just a twisted expression of emotion.A famous legend is that after Takeshi Kitano went to Tokyo, his mother urged him to send money home every month, and if there was an occasional delay or forgetting, she would call and yell at him.After his mother died, he reluctantly went home to attend the funeral, and got two things left by his mother: a letter and a bank passbook.The letter wrote: "My son, you have been dissolute since childhood, and I am worried that you will have nothing in the future... There are 10 million yuan in your passbook."

Chauffeurs, boxers, waiters at strip shows, elevator workers, and more. In 1973, Takeshi Kitano met the actor Kaneko Jiro, and he formed the cross talk group Two Beats with him, and took the stage name Beat Takeshi (Beat Takeshi).Vulgarity, acrimony, and dark humor made him Japan's most popular comedian, before breaking into TV and getting a chance to star in movies. The turning point happened in 1989. At the age of 42, he participated in Shochiku Films' "The Violent Man". The original director Kinji Fukasaku resigned from the directorship of the film. "How about you be the director?" His answer was: "Okay." Since then, he has two names. When he was an actor, he was Peter Takeshi, and when he was a director, he was Kitano Takeshi.

In 21 years, 15 directorial works, numerous awards, and support from the hearts of the people.Before his death, Akira Kurosawa specially wrote a letter entrusting Japanese movies to him. He framed the letter and hung it on the wall. Takeshi Kitano started painting in 1994. In August of that year, he slipped and fell while riding a heavy motorcycle late at night. He was seriously injured and recuperated for seven months. It was an "unsuccessful suicide", he said later.He didn't die, but he left facial nerve paralysis and other sequelae. From then on, he appeared with half of the facial paralysis. His iconic image - the expressionless perverted killer in "Moonlight Panic", was also fixed at this time .

He started painting on the hospital bed, and thought that "this accident can make me a talented painter, another Picasso".This past incident later appeared in the 1997 movie "Huahuo". In the movie, the criminal police officer Dibu was injured and paralyzed. He could only spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, and his family also left him. Jing said that when he was young, he was busy with work and didn't think about his hobbies, but now he really wants to draw.At the end of the film, Xi Jiajing sent him paints and tools for painting. When the scene changes, those paintings appear quietly one by one, flowers, fireworks, animals.

There is a mesmerizing quality about these paintings that many look forward to seeing again, and finally, his drawings appear in abundance again in the 2008 film "Achilles and the Turtle," a tale about The movie about the life story of the painter who "thought he was very talented" was almost born to place the paintings of Takeshi Kitano. He prepared more than one hundred paintings for this movie, including old works and new ones specially drawn for the plot Therefore, Takeshi Kitano has to prepare paintings of different standards. When the protagonist imitated Miro in art school, Takeshi Kitano had to prepare paintings of a similar style. It shows the taste of "learning from Miro but not learning well".Takeshi Kitano's delicate warmth is not only reflected in his paintings.

He is a cold but kind father.His daughter Kitano Jingzi is not good at knowing people. At the age of 23, she hastily married a chef who lied about her family background. Later, she divorced and lived with her daughter. Inheritance tax, simply adopt the granddaughter as an adopted daughter. He is a well-known shelter for the downcast in the entertainment industry.In the program he hosted, he used Namiko Koukai, who was arrested for violating the anti-doping law several times. After Noriko Sakai's accident, he planned to create a "female movie with mother as the protagonist" for her—— You know, he's never made a movie about a woman.

He is an investor in Jia Zhangke's films.Jia Zhangke invested in several films in the most difficult period. When Jia Zhangke made "Platform", he took out 5 million yuan without making any demands, and then "Ren Xiaoyao", "Twenty-Four Cities" remember".And the Cui Jian movie "Blue Bones", which started filming in October 2010, was also produced by Takeshi Kitano. Many people are looking for Takeshi Kitano's paintings, but they can't find them everywhere. The only thing they can find is the screenshots of the paintings in the movie. Because, Takeshi Kitano believes that he is painting for himself and does not want to make it public on a large scale.He once said: "I am not a professional painter. I paint out of personal interests and hobbies. I have not bought or sold any art because I hate combining art and business. It is interesting that someone found my home and bought me. It is morbid to charge millions of dollars for a painting."

People who really like his paintings don't take it as disobedience.The Cartier Modern Art Foundation has actively invited Takeshi Kitano to hold exhibitions since 2004, and finally led to an exhibition of Takeshi Kitano's art works entitled "Gossede Peintre". The exhibition was held at the Cartier Art Center in Paris, France, from March 11 From September 12th, it took half a year, which is relatively rare in the history of European pavilions.There are paintings and videos of Takeshi Kitano in the exhibition, as well as some installations full of whimsy.French Minister of Culture and Communications Frédéric Mitterrand visited the exhibition and presented Takeshi Kitano with the French Commander of Letters and Arts. At the award ceremony, Mitterrand praised Takeshi Kitano for his rich works and a three-dimensional and plump person .

"Three-dimensional and plump person" seems to be the portrayal of Takeshi Kitano.In her book, Ruth Benedict made an accurate judgment on the national character of the Japanese: "The knife and the chrysanthemum are both part of a painting. The Japanese are extremely aggressive and very Gentle; militaristic and beauty-loving; arrogant and polite; stubborn and pliable; submissive and unwilling to be pushed around; loyal and rebellious; brave and cowardly; conservative and I welcome the new way of life very much." Takeshi Kitano's character is the product of this soil. Gentleness and violence coexist, tiger and rose coexist, this strange scene reminds the subtle twists and turns of the human heart and the complexity of human nature. Of course, not all cold-faced people have a warm side, and not all Japanese people can be "three-dimensional" and "full" at the same time.But for those who paint flowers, we should have confidence.