MADRID — Takeshi Kitano’s “Zatoichi” took the top prize at the 36th Sitges Catalonia Intl. Film Festival, which wound down Saturday with a well-received screening of “11.14,” toplining Hilary Swank ...

Cannes fest favorite Takeshi Kitano is behind the camera again, directing and starring in “Zatoichi,” which resurrects the long-running Japanese anti-hero, absent from the screen since the late 1980s.

The last time Takeshi Kitano was on the film festival circuit, it was with 2017’s Outrage Coda. Word had it this yakuza drama, the third in a trilogy, was to be his final film. The Japanese ...