GEORGE THE MONKEY
FILMMAKER.
ACTOR.
ARTIST.
George the Monkey has been a fixture on the Tokyo scene for years.
George has long admired The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. After seeing it, he knew it would be the springboard for the cultural phenomenon that the Fast & Furious films became.
He has mentioned this regularly ever since.
George considers himself a filmmaker first and an actor second.
He regards Takeshi Kitano — Beat Takeshi — as a contemporary and himself as Kitano's natural successor.
This view is not universally shared.
In Ueno Park, George plays Joe Macaque, a long-time resident of the park who discovers a body and begins asking questions some people would prefer he didn't.
“Cinema did not disappoint me. Cinema disappointed itself.”
— GEORGE THE MONKEY