The 74-year-old director is known abroad for his films often featuring the violent world of the yakuza, the Japanese mafia.
The attack didn’t hurt anyone. A man attacked on Saturday, September 4th night in Tokyo, Japan, armed with a pickaxe and a knife, the vehicle carrying the famous Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. According to public broadcaster NHK, he was leaving the headquarters of private broadcaster TBS, where he had just made a live broadcast, when the assailant, a man in his forties, ran to the filmmaker’s vehicle door and began pounding. it with a pickaxe, damaging the windshield and other parts.
The man was arrested at the scene. According to NHK, TBS and several other Japanese media, he was interrogated by police on Sunday.
Takeshi Kitano, 74, is known abroad for his films with a very personal aesthetic and tortured characters, often introducing the violent world of the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. In Japan, he is also famous as a comedian and television presenter.