Getting Any? - Scatological Humour

Scatological Humour

Questioned about the scatological gags used in his movie, Takeshi Kitano answered that excrements and manure were a common source of humor in Japan since the country was traditionally an agricultural worker's land.

A French interviewer even asked the film maker if the giant dirt, seen near the end of the movie, was a metaphor for the decadence of the Japanese society, but Kitano laughed and answered that not at all, it was only meant as a "local color" joke.

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