'Asakusa Kid': Cinema as counterculture and nostalgia

There are two ways of getting to know this man—as Beat Takeshi the comedian, or Kitano Takeshi, the acclaimed filmmaker and favorite among arthouse film aficionados. One knows him as a comedian, a part of two-man team doing “manzai,” a kind of stand-up funny man show composed of one doing…

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