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Kikujiro
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767850254
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767850254
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Subtitled), Japanese (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 121 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 26, 2000
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Editorial Review:
When words like "sweet" pop up in a review of a Takeshi Kitano film, you want to check that billing again. But yes, this really is Beat Takeshi, the funkiest dead-eyed gangster in Japanese cinema, in a gooey road movie about a glum orphan and a bumbling would-be tough guy who becomes his droopy guardian angel. The shambling walk is the same, as is the blank expression that twists into a cockeyed smile, and the film erupts (albeit infrequently) into sadistic bouts of petty violence. Takeshi is something between a gruff teddy bear and a bully as the former criminal turned unlikely babysitter who, on a whim, decides to hit the road in search of the kid's long lost mother.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Loony Biker on a Beach
The musical score to this film is addictive. Its lovely sense of melody uplifts our emotions. Takeshi Kitano was nominated for the Golden Palm Award for this film @ Cannes & won Best Actor at Spain's Valladolid International Film Festival.
Kayoko Kishimoto was abrasive as Kikujiro's wife, which made you understand why he volunteered to take off with Masao played by Yusuke Sekiguchi. Overall, this film did not work for me. Other than the fact that there wasn't a story or much ... Read More
Rating:  - 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.
Rating: - Worth 116 Minutes of Your Life
This is one of my favorite films.
You don't need me to give you a synopsis of the film. Amazon does that. And you certainly don't need for me to tell you about the wonders of Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. That would just be repetitve and make me a blow-hard.
So, I'll simply tell you this--
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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - Most surprising film I've seen so far this year.
Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999)
It took me all of five minutes to fall hopelessly in love with Kikujiro. And the movie only got better from there.
Kikujiro (Kitano) is a gambler and small-time criminal who's also the neighbor of Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi in his big-screen debut), a lonely, henpecked kid who lives with his grandmother. Masao's mother, according to his grandmother, is off making money to send to his grandmother for his upkeep; one summer break, Masao decides he's ... Read More
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