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KITANO TAKESHI: (1947- ) Japanese comedian, actor and filmmaker. Signed colour 7 x 5 photograph of Kitano in a head and shoulders pose, in costume as Murakawa, an aging mid-level yakuza enforcer, with a gun pointed to his temple, in a scene from the film Sonatine (1993) which Kitano also directed. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. EX

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KITANO TAKESHI: (1947- ) Japanese comedian, actor and filmmaker. Signed colour 7 x 5 photograph of Kitano in a head and shoulders pose, in costume as Murakawa, an aging mid-level yakuza enforcer, with a gun pointed to his temple, in a scene from the film Sonatine (1993) which Kitano also directed. Signed in bold blue ink with his name alone to a clear area of the image. EX

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