Takeshi Kitano Reveals He Suffered a Concussion Right Before Venice ‘Broken Rage’ Premiere and Doesn’t Remember Much: ‘I’m Quite Embarrassed to Say That’

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Naman Ramachandran Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano offered a surprisingly candid admission about his Venice Film Festival appearance for “Broken Rage” last year: he barely remembers it, having suffered a concussion en route to the premiere after hitting his head on a motorboat. “I actually had to go to the doctor, and they looked into my brain waves,” Kitano revealed at a Tokyo press event for the Amazon Original film. “I’m quite embarrassed to say that.

For those people who were involved, they all asked me how Venice was. And I don’t actually really have anything.” The incident didn’t dampen the reception of “Broken Rage,” which made history as the first Japanese streaming production selected for Venice’s out of competition section.

The hour-long experimental film splits its runtime between a hard-boiled Yakuza thriller and a comedic self-parody of the same story.

Co-star Tadanobu Asano, fresh off a Golden Globe win for “Shogun,” described the film’s audience impact at its Venice premiere: “There was part A, the serious part of the film, for the first half.