If you want to relax after too much work .. and are sick of the normal
Hollywood movies, check out Beat Takeshi.
Excellent page
about Beat Takeshi.
Takeshi Kitano on the question: What’s you’re coolest moment?
"In Japan, there is a broadcasting station called NHK,
like BBC, but much, much stricter. When I was a rising
star in comedy I appeared on a live program, and the director specifically
said you can't say such-and-such, if you use these words you'll
be finished. So of course I couldn't resist. I said 'shit'
12 times in a row. I said, 'I saw a shit-like substance on the street.
So I went over and I picked it up and smelled it, and it smelled like
shit. Then I felt it and it felt like shit, and I liked it, and
it tasted like shit, so I put it away. Thank god I didn't step in it!'
That was my coolest moment, because it was a tremendous risk. They could have
cut me off but they didn't. The director was fired and the producer was moved
to another program, far away from Tokyo."
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