For much of its running time, “Asakusa Kid” is a safe, traditional and easily enjoyable biographical drama about the scrappy early career of legendary Japanese comedian-actor-author-filmmaker “Beat” ...

Japanese comedian and arthouse filmmaker Kitano Takeshi will get a biopic movie, Asakusa Kid, based on his memoir about his early career. Netflix will debut the movie next year. According to Variety, ...

The early days of comedian and filmmaker “Beat” Takeshi Kitano’s career are chronicled in Gekidan Hitori’s affectionate drama Asakusa Kid, which is adapted for the screen from Kitano’s own 1988 memoir ...

Fans of the internationally popular "Beat" Takeshi Kitano are the likeliest targets for this tale of his misspent youth, adapted from his memoirs by members of the Office Kitano crowd. Made for Nippon ...

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 ...

Hakase Suidobashi is a Japanese comedian who is a member of the comedy duo Asakusa Kid. His real name is Masayoshi Ono. Suidobashi is represented with Office Kitano. He is also a manzai comedian, ...

The bulk of the tale takes place in a lovingly re-created 1972, with Kitano introduced as the elevator boy and general dogsbody at France-za, a burlesque house whose dwindling audience is more ...