KUBI

("Neck" indicating Decapitation)

2023–Color - 130 min.– DIGITAL ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (16:9)

Starring: KITANO "Beat" Takeshi

                NISHIJIMA Hidetoshi, ASANO Tadanobu

                ENDO Kenichi, Kan'ichiro, KASE Ryo

                 KIRITANI Kenta, TSUDA Kanji

 Directed by: KITANO Takeshi

                DECAPITATIONS GALORE!

Beat Takeshi’s tour de force tale of the events leading up to and including the assassination of Oda Nobunaga at Honno-ji Temple in Kyota leading to the rise of Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the supreme ruler of Japan. One of the bloodiest most violent renditions of that era in Japanese history, complete with graphic homosexual images and literally dozens of decapitations… as the title Kubi (which means “Neck”) implies. Written and directed by Kitano who also has the lead as Hideyoshi this long-awaited motion picture led off the Cannes Film Festival of 2023 as major success. The movie answers the question of whether Akechi Mitsuhide was justified to kill Nobunaga!