Getting Any?...the documentary for Kitano as...comedian

Getting Any?....After silent violent movie "Sonatine", the movie which was


lauded in Europe and chosen as 100 best movies for 21century by BBC...


thus, after receiving the reputation and evaluation from world


or the apogee or zenith for his carrier for violent movies...


Takeshi Kitano obsessed to make "the comical movie"


...as famous and talented comedian,


he think he had to create....or do the comedy on movie.





Especially, while the producer of Kitano movies, Masayuki Mori was


really confused, perplexed and honestly didn't wanna produce that...


Kitano forthrightly claimed the necessity of creation of comedy


with this....


"If I do not create the comedy on movie in this time...


my whole ideas dried up..."


Mr.Mori recognized this phrase


 as his extremely critical pitches for comic movie...that


implies he could not direct or create any movies...



so, Mori reluctantly and in the end permitted


 to start the filming "Getting Any?",


despite his confusion or anxiety...



Before and in the time of filming...however, the mental condition of


Kitano was so...unstable, even fluctuated from optimistic to


pessimistic side....thus, the width of his mental wave is so....huge.


Mr.Mori worried about that and call the situation as


"Tycoon, he is in insane situation...(殿、ご乱心）


(In Japanese word "ご乱心(Goransin)" means lunatic


or insane...both are not suitable so much but Jpn-Eng dictionary


notice that...so I use insane in this case)"


Actually, according to Mr.Mori,


Kitano always has objective perspectives for himself...


even his reputation, evaluation, ability, comedy and more...


but, in the terms of shooting, he could not see himself objectively


and calmly and obsessed his adamant ideals for some...


comical expressions or farces...on the movie that crushes


his whole reputation or movies themselves...


"Getting Any?" is absolutely....his documentary movie for unstable


mental condition and obsession for comedy....thus, after shooting,


he triggered fatal accident by motorcycle with intoxicated


condition...somebody said that was


"suicide"the despondence for his comical work...


even Kitano did not or can not remember the memory


about that....or he seems to be kill himself objectively...


"After the accident, I saw the pictures of that...


I was shocked by them...it seems to be suicide that


I just wanna crash into the guard rails...intentionally, but


I didn't have any memories for the moment..."



Anyway, while his unstable mental condition generated


"Getting Any?",


this movie is so...comical, facetious and jocose.


Mr.Yodogawa...as you know, one of the best Kitanist


loves this movie so much...as film of genius creator or


comedian like Chaplin, Lloyd and some famous like them...


The theme of this movie is..."just wanna sex with woman".


The whole ideas of ordinary or usual man who wanna....


thus, this is the nonsense comical movie about woman and sex.



In this movie, there are some parodies about...old Japanese


movies or "invisible man"...but British critics in London movie


festivals criticized the parody scene of invisible one...as poor


one that was not enough to be parody...and, they are really


confused and lost their words after watching...it is the same that fatal


accident happened...



Anyway, this movie was so...hilarious and nonsense for us.


Just laughing, or making you anger...Kitano hoped so.


After this movie, Kitano tried again to film the movie that contains


some comical scenes in...Kikujiro's Summer. This movie was given


huge applause...in Cannes film festival by all audience.


In my book, after filming Outrage series...he will be try again


to create some comical touched movie...