Japanese actor, director and comedian Takeshi Kitano, aka “Beat Takeshi,” will star in American director Wayne Wang’s next feature, While the Women Are Sleeping, a psycho-drama based on a short story by Spanish novelist Javier Marias. Wang is best known as the director of The Joy Luck Club, Smoke and Maid in Manhattan.
The film marks the fist time in 12 years that Kitano has accepted a lead role in another director’s film.
The film is told from the perspective of a Japanese writer, who meets a mysterious older man traveling with a much younger woman at a seaside resort on the Japanese peninsula of Izu.
