Takeshis'

Takeshis' (2005) is a surreal Japanese film to watch online on iFILM, written and directed by its own star Takeshi Kitano. He plays two men: Beat Takeshi, the famous director-comedian who drifts through life from a Rolls-Royce; and Kitano, a convenience-store cashier who keeps failing auditions and slowly loses his grip on what's real. Their dreams begin to bleed into each other.

The film doesn't follow a plot so much as circle an obsession — Kitano's own celebrity image, the yakuza archetype he's been associated with for decades, the gap between a public persona and whatever is underneath it. Repeated images, mass shootings lifted from his own earlier movies, fragments of his comedy TV career. If you find his straight crime films too controlled, this is the opposite. Watch Takeshis' online on iFILM.