The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano
            
                Directors Cuts Paperback
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 2012
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780231163330
Description: "The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The volume uniquely explores Kitano's oeuvre through the tropes of stillness and movement, becoming animal, melancholy and loss, intensity, schizophrenia, and radical alterity; and through the aesthetic temperatures of color, light, camera movement, performance and urban and oceanic space. In this highly original monograph, all of Kitano's films are given due consideration, including A Scene at the Sea (1991), Sonatine (1993), Dolls (2002), and Outrage (2010), and Outrage Beyond (2012)." -- Back cover.