| Glory to the Filmmaker! | |
| Director: | Takeshi Kitano |
| Producer: | Masayuki Mori |
| Starring: | Beat Takeshi Tōru Emori Susumu Terajima Yuki Uchida Anne Suzuki Ren Osugi |
| Music: | Shinichirô Ikebe |
| Cinematography: | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| Editing: | Takeshi Kitano Yoshinori Ota |
| Studio: | Bandai Visual Tokyo FM Dentsu TV Asahi |
| Distributor: | Tokyo Theatres Office Kitano |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 2007 Japanese film written, directed, edited by the film's lead star Takeshi Kitano. It is the second film in Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, following Takeshis', and concluding with Achilles and the Tortoise.
The comedy crosses a broad range of genres common to Japanese film in a fashion similar to Getting Any?, Kitano's 1995 parody. Kitano described the film as "a cinematic extension of his manzai comedy routines that continues in much the same vein as his last feature, the similarly eclectic Takeshis."[1]
Kitano plays a hapless film director in search of a commercial hit, while suffering failure after failure as he tries out different genres.
In 2007, the Venice Film Festival introduced a new award named after the film; Kitano was the first recipient of this Glory to the Filmmaker Award award.[2]