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- ISSN: 1059-440X
- E-ISSN: 2049-6710
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The Man Who Re-Shot John Wayne: Kitano Takeshi's Search for a Globalist Vision
- Source: Asian Cinema, Volume 17, Issue 2, Sep 2006, p. 146 - 154
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- 01 Sep 2006
Abstract
This article will discuss Kitano Takeshi's walk in Violent Cop. Where do Kitano's walks take him to most often? - The beach. Here, literally at the edges of Japan's geography, his marginalized figures go, to gaze outward and never inward, to seek both peace and answers. The journey I argue, takes him eventually to a post-Wayne America in Brother, where he finds existential meaning within a mood of cautious optimism tempered with manifest pessimism.
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