Explores the issues of auteurship and stardom in the films of <strong>Kitano Takeshi</strong>especially as they relate to problems of personal and national iden... » 

Explores the issues of auteurship and stardom in the films of Kitano Takeshiespecially as they relate to problems of personal and national identity in aJapan confronting an age of globalization. This book relates the director toissues of contemporary cinema Japanese national identity and globalism. «