This might sound like a Clint Eastwood script, but on screen Kitano's vision is unique.
Japanese director Takeshi Kitano won best director for Zatoichi, about a blind swordsman in 19th Century Japan.
The star of the Godfather trilogy joins such previous winners as Sylvester Stallone and Japan's Takeshi Kitano.
In the new film, which he also wrote and co-edited, Kitano plays Nishi, a policeman on the slide.
Hana-bi is Kitano's best film yet, and won the prestigious Gold Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.
On the live-action front there is the latest from Takeshi Kitano, whose police thriller Hana-Bi won the Golden Lion in 1997.
The seventh and most sombre work from the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.
Elize Ramos Kitano Matsunaga, 38, killed her husband, Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, 42, in their apartment in Sao Paulo last month, police said.
Nishi, played by Kitano, dispenses some very rough justice as he comforts his ailing wife, his partner's spouse and a young police widow.
Like Kitano's other heroes, he follows the Samurai code -- that a man should choose the correct time and method of his death.
The editing (by Kitano) moves the film quickly and seamlessly between moments of extreme tranquillity and hard violence, while Kitano's performance is quietly intense.
Did I mention that the Kitano also has a serious-looking Japanese restaurant (though I didn't have the chance to eat there) and a jazz club?
Among the favourites for the Golden Lion are Japanese directors Takeshi Kitano, with Achilles and the Tortoise, and Hayao Miyasaki, for the animated feature Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.
It has been a grand year for Japanese films, and they don't come much grander than Hana-bi, a poetic, violent masterpiece from Kitano "Beat" Takeshi, and Princess Mononoke, a superb animation by Miyazaki Hayao.
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