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Release Date: 2012

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

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, 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 teenager, Machisu attends art school and finds his style of painting challenged by the more experimental and conceptual work turned in by his classmates. However, Machisu strikes up a friendship with a fellow student, Sachiko (Kumiko Aso). 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 him, including the death of his own daughter and his wife's desertion. He tries to LESS