I do love me some Kitano, gotta say. Amongst the films of his that I'd recommend: Sonatine, which steals its climax from The Public Enemy (but then again, The Limey does much the same homage in one particular scene, and it really never gets old), and Fireworks, which is almost indescribable. Kitano's Buster Keaton quality comes at least partially from his having been in a motorcycle accident which left his face semi-paralyzed, but it's always what he does with his eyes and his general physicality that I find most interesting. (He also hosted the slapstick TV show Takeshi's Castle, surreally redubbed as MXE: Most Extreme Elimination, and recently remade as Wipeout.)