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Cult Japanese Director Takeshi Kitano Lends Art For Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Poster
Cult Japanese Director Takeshi Kitano Lends Art For Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Poster
The section alluded to Kitano’s 1984 autobiographical story Takeshikun, hai depicting his daily life as a child and that of his family in the slums of Tokyo. Directors’ Fortnight said that the choice of the quirky painting as the emblem of its 2024 edition was a way of “paying tribute to the poetry and humour” at the heart of Kitano’s cinema. Directors’ Fortnight, which was born in 1969 in the wake of the student and worker unrest of May 1968, is gearing up for its second edition under the directorship of former film producer, distributor and sales agent Julien Rejl.
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