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Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Keywords
surreal
surrealism
Casts

Takeshi Kitano
Beat Takeshi / Mr. Kitano

Kotomi Kyōno
Takeshi's Girlfriend / Kitano's Female Neighbor

Kayoko Kishimoto
Mahjong Parlor Woman / Audition Producer / Costumer

Ren Osugi
Takeshi's Manager / Taxi Driver

Susumu Terajima
Takeshi's Friend / Kitano's Yakuza Neighbor

Tetsu Watanabe
TV Wardrobe Master / Noodle Cook / Audition Actor

Akihiro Miwa
Self

Naomasa Musaka
Film Studios Tattooist

Koichi Ueda
Film Crew Member close to the Director

Kanji Tsuda
Film Director

Makoto Ashikawa
Assistant at Audition

Tamotsu Ishibashi

Toshi

Tadanobu Asano

Beat Kiyoshi

Takashi Nishina

Taichi Saotome
Young Man

Takagi Junya
Self

Yoshiyuki Morishita
Light Man in Film Crew / Audition Juror / Client at Bank
Jonathan Legg
American Soldier

Gambino Kobayashi

Mari Hayashida
Jinta Nishizawa
Takayuki Katô

Akira Kubo

Masahiro Sumiyoshi
Shûji Ôtsuki
Taigi Kobayashi
Junichi Kikawa
Crews

Takeshi Kitano
Director

Yohji Yamamoto
Costume Design

Takeshi Kitano
Writer
Katsumi Yanagijima
Director of Photography

Takeshi Kitano
Editor
Yoshinori Ota
Editor

Nagi
Original Music Composer
Masayuki Mori
Producer
Takio Yoshida
Producer
Senji Horiuchi
Sound Designer
Norihiro Isoda
Production Design
Norihiro Isoda
Art Direction
Backdrops & Posters







