Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker! (監督·ばんざい!, Kantoku · Banzai!) is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is the second film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, following Takeshis', and concluding with Achilles and the Tortoise.

Glory to the Filmmaker!
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Takeshi Kitano
Written by	Takeshi Kitano
Produced by	Masayuki Mori
Starring	Beat Takeshi Tōru Emori Susumu Terajima Yuki Uchida Anne Suzuki Ren Osugi
Cinematography	Katsumi Yanagishima
Edited by	Takeshi Kitano Yoshinori Ota
Music by	Shinichirô Ikebe
Production companies	Bandai Visual Tokyo FM Dentsu TV Asahi
Distributed by	Tokyo Theatres Office Kitano
Release date	June 2, 2007 (2007-06-02)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Style

The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film in a fashion similar to Getting Any?, Kitano's 1995 parody.^{[citation needed]} Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of his manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as his last feature, the similarly eclectic Takeshis'."^[1]

Plot

Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.

Cast

• Takeshi Kitano
• Tōru Emori
• Kayoko Kishimoto
• Anne Suzuki
• Keiko Matsuzaka
• Yoshino Kimura
• Kazuko Yoshiyuki
• Yuki Uchida
• Akira Takarada
• Yumiko Fujita
• Ren Osugi
• Susumu Terajima
• Naomasa Musaka

Reception

In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film; Kitano was the first recipient of this Glory to the Filmmaker Award.^[2]