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Whimsical adventures and silly games are punctuated by violent beatings: despite its moments of sweetness and offbeat humor, this is no family film. In one scene the downcast orphan struggles with a child molester who is trying to yank down his underwear before Takeshi rescues him. It's an uncomfortable scene that is inexplicably played for uneasy humor, the most extreme example of the film's ambiguous tone. Kitano never gets the film under control and the sweetness gets cloying at times, but he invests it with hilarious moments of bizarre, deadpan humor. Though hardly his best, this is without a doubt his strangest film to date, and that's saying something. --Sean Axmaker
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 26 May, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Humor, Adult Language, Adult Situations, Bittersweet, Color, Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Deadpan, Feature, Foreign, Foreign Film - Japanese, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], International, Japan, Japanese, Moody, Movie, Nothing Goes Right, Obsessive Quests, Odd Couple Film |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D05279D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396052796 |
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Customer Reviews of Kikujiro
Alltimes Best Wonderful story, great morale, and totally hillarious. Great for a family present. I had to get a soundtrack, so much I loved the music.
Worth 116 Minutes of Your Life
This is one of my favorite films.
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>The film gives us a wonderful glimpse of life in "modern" Tokyo. I was already a fan of Takeshi "Beat" Kitano before I saw this and found this to be a magnificent departure from his more aggressive films. While I admit to not fully understanding all the dancing, my guess is that since they occur largely in the dream/nightmare sequences of a child, it gives us access to his imagination.
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>It is a heart-warming film and the lengths the many characters go to in order to provide young Masao some fun is endearing. Frankly, you can't beat a Japanese beatnik roaming around in a little van! Kitano plays a small time crook whose on screen wife is terrific, absolutely hysterical.
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>It's well worth 116 minutes of your life.
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How could you not like this movie?
It's amazing to me to see that other folks did not 'get' this movie. It's really too bad that some don't have the patience to let the characters play out and unfold. The warmth and compassion of this movie are absolutely beautiful, the comic scenes are 'laugh out loud' funny and is the best movie I've seen in a very long time.