Takeshi Kitano, like so many other people from outside this country, has ever tried to try his luck in the United States. The filmmaker enters the 2000st century with his first film in North America, it is "Brother" from the year XNUMX, a film about a Japanese mobster who problems with the Yakuza he is forced into exile. The film, despite being of great quality, leaves both critics and the public quite indifferent at the time.
In 2002 Kitano shoots the film “Dolls”A drama about three stories of eternal love with which this time if he receives great praise from the critics again.
And a year later his movie "Zatoichi" arrives, which makes him even more popular. With her wins the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, the film also wins the award for best film given by the public at the Toronto Festival and at the Sitges Festival it receives the awards for best film, best soundtrack and Audience Award.
In 2005, with “Takeshis'”, He does a work of self-reflection comparing what his career as a director or what he makes known as Takeshi Kitano has been and what his life as a comedian or actor has been, his alter ego Takeshi beat. As in this film, in real life he signs his performances as Takeshi beat and only as Takeshi Kitano his works as a director.
"Glory to the filmmaker!”Would arrive in 2007. As he did in“ Takeshis' ”, Kitano returns to the exercise of introspection of his own cinema, to show how the work's creation progress is. This time from a more comic side, it shows us a director who tries to find his style by trying to create cinema in all possible genres.
That same year he participated in the project "To each his cinema." A French film of 33 short films of about three minutes each, which was made on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Some of the best directors of the moment participated in it. Takeshi Kitano's piece is called “One Fine Day”.
In 2008 he shot the film "Achilles and the Tortoise", a film that narrates the experiences of an artist of little talent who has the support of his wife. In recent years, creation has become a recurring theme in Kitano's filmography, as he reflected on it in his previous film "Glory to the filmmaker!" and the following year he did it with the black comedy "Achilles and the tortoise”. This film was chosen for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival that same year.