When you see him from the top of his prison, overlooking the candidates of Takeshi’s Castle, a cult Japanese game picked up by televisions around the world, it’s hard to imagine that Takeshi Kitano could be a ubiquitous reference in French rap. Watching her dress up as a geisha or aboard her tank-shaped kart, in what looks more like a Super Mario Kart game than a game show hosted by Nagui, it’s true that we don’t even think for a second of the film career led by the Japanese star .
Takeshi Kitano, on the other hand, is a sensitive comedian, a brilliant actor in the roles of silent mobsters, a schizophrenic personality, capable of playing dramatic characters alongside David Bowie (Furyo, 1983), of playing the joker on television or wearing the costume of a avant-garde director.
Among his most famous films there is in particular Sonatine, mortal melody, the one that, in 1993, allowed him to reach the great Western public.
Coincidence or not, it is also the French poster of this feature film that Alpha 5.20 has chosen to take up illustrating Scarface d’Afrique, a raw, violent album linked to the street, where the Parisian rapper appears in the same posture as Murakawa, the protagonist of Sonatine : a gun to his temple, a smile on his face.
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— Quomunoté (@quomunote) May 15, 2020
“Here we understand everything that rappers can like in Kitano’s work, specifies Lucas Aubry, author of the Takeshi Kitano-Hors category. There’s this fearlessness in the face of death, this enactment of the yakuza’s code of honor, the underpinnings of which can be echoed in the vocabulary of rappers. There is also this willingness to die rather than be dishonored[“La[«La[“La[«La
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