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Release Date: 2008

Cast: Kanako Higuchi, Takeshi Kitano, Kumiko Aso, Aya Enyoji, Nao Ōmori, Eri Tokunaga, Akira Nakao, Yûrei Yanagi, Reo Yoshioka, Masatō Ibu, Ren Osugi, Mariko Tsutsui

Categories: Movies, Japanese Movies, World cinema

Achilles and the Tortoise (アキレスと亀, Akiresu to Kame) is a 2008 Japanese film written, directed, edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film is the third and final part of Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, starting with Takeshis' and continuing with Glory to the Filmmaker!. The title Achilles and the Tortoise refers to the motion paradox by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, Achilles and the Tortoise. Kitano plays Machisu, who is born into a wealthy family, but loses both his parents as a child. When his father commits suicide after the collapse of his business, Machisu's... MORE

Achilles and the Tortoise (アキレスと亀, Akiresu to Kame) is a 2008 Japanese film written, directed, edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film is the third and final part of Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, starting with Takeshis' and continuing with Glory to the Filmmaker!. The title Achilles and the Tortoise refers to the motion paradox by Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, Achilles and the Tortoise. Kitano plays Machisu, who is born into a wealthy family, but loses both his parents as a child. When his father commits suicide after the collapse of his business, Machisu's stepmother (Mariko Tsutsui) sends him to live with an aunt and uncle who mistreat him and finally send him to an orphanage. As a young man, Machisu attends art school and finds his style of painting challenged by the more experimental and conceptual work turned in by his classmates. Machisu takes a job in order to pay for art school, and strikes up a friendship with a fellow co-worker, Sachiko (Kumiko Aso), who seems to grasp his artistic vision. They get married and have a daughter. As he grows older, Mashisu's obsession with contemporary art controls his whole life, leaving him insensitive of everything around LESS