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Takeshis’ – A brief, skittish, semi-retarded movie, designed to be nonsensical and get viewers to form their own alternate versions of the “reality” of the film in order to be entertaining at parties. “Oh, did you see Takeshis? What do you think it’s about?”
The film is a random series of scenes, most of which have nothing to do with each other, of Takeshi throught the ages, re-enacting scenes from his films, wandering through the film in a selection of characters, but mostly he is either a humble convenience store worker or the famous film director himself. Great audition for a small part – totally crap throughout, he hardly has an opportunity to try. The gangster and his moll mock and tease him at the old apartment where he lives (which looks like a set – ah ha!!!). Flowers are delivered to director Takeshi’s apartment, a caterpillar crawls up the leaves, gamblers rumble in a mahjjong parlor. The bit players get their own scene of tap dancing and percussion, perhaps a deleted track from the Zatoichi soundtrack enacted in Takeshis’ (so as not to waste anything good).
Ultimately, I don’t know what to make of Takeshis’. Maybe I need to see more Takeshi movies.