CANNES : Japanese director Takeshi Kitano said that he held back in showing too much blood and gore in 'Kubi', his new ultraviolent samurai film that features beheadings faster than can be counted.The filmmaker, who is also a painter, actor and comedian, spent three decades researching and writing a novel
CANNES : Japanese director Takeshi Kitano said that he held back in showing too much blood and gore in"Kubi", his new ultraviolent samurai film that features beheadings faster than can be counted.
"During the Sengoku period, the way they appraised warriors was how many enemy's heads they beheaded, especially heads of the top samurais who had black teeth, which symbolizes the samurai's superiority," he said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday."They were persistent during the civil war period," he added.
Kitano said that the violence reflected how battles were fought at the time and that the film actually held back. Reviews of the film begged to differ, describing it as"brutal" and"vicious", with the critic for entertainment news outlet Vulture writing that it had"more beheadings per minute than any feature film I've seen in a while".
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