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The story of Masao, a nine year old boy who wishes that he could meet up with his mother again. He along with Kikujiro, a small time gangster, undertake a long journey which brings them closer together. Read more

Starring	'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
Director	'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
Genres	World Cinema

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- Kitano's violence-free 'road movie' (inspired by The Wizard of Oz, he says) is his most idiosyncratic film yet. He... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:17
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  Kitano does cute and funny!
  
  Well I expect if you're looking up this film you know what kind of films Kitano does, violent yakuza gangster and cop ones. Recently though he has produced ... read more »
  
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  - Stowmarket, England
  - 20 Sep 2004 at 10:54
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  Dragged out end in otherwise very warming film
  
  Brilliant and heart felt. Its quirky funny and saddening at the same time. The Japanese style of film is very different to typical american, but if you allow ... read more »
  
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- - TheBigC
  - 6 reviews
  - Bournemouth
  - 28 Nov 2011 at 18:05
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  Really bad acting, agressive behaviour, and terribly slow.
  
  I felt no sympathy with the main character 'Kikujiro'.
  
  No matter what happens to us, we choose to react a certain way. And the way this guy ... read more »
  
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- - JuiceOfLife
  - 27 reviews
  - 29 Jul 2011 at 10:09
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  Dull and uninspiring
  
  Disappointing. This felt slow, dull and irritating. The main characters didn't pique my interest or my empathy. Interesting directing style and that's ... read more »
  
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  - 25 Jun 2011 at 21:10
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  Poignant and moving and at times very funny
  
  A touching and poignant story of unlikely friendship. At the beginning of what looks like a lonely uneventful summer break a lonely child is accompanied by a ... read more »
  
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- - kimchikid
  - 1 review
  - beckenham
  - 28 Jan 2011 at 22:53
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  A sweet film.
  
  A departure for Beat Takeshi in what is a very cute and very funny film. Takeshi plays the lead in a part that has him befriend a nine year old boy on a long ... read more »
  
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- - gingerspike
  - 289 reviews
  - Grimsby
  - 04 Dec 2010 at 03:41
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  Charming
  
  Nice film... Hard to make out who's the kid from the two central characters :o)... But I enjoyed it immensely and really cared for the characters.
  
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- - dougieladd
  - 14 reviews
  - Chester le Street
  - 17 Aug 2009 at 23:06
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  A boy's eye view
  
  The thing that irks me about Takeshi is the implausability of so many of the scanrios he creates. Here is a fundamentally simple story, which breezes through ... read more »
  
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- - Sunnyhoop
  - 7 reviews
  - Swindon
  - 15 Feb 2009 at 21:05
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  kikujiro
  
  Having seen most of the directors films I was used to his style.
  
  this was quite an enchanting film and at times very amusing.
  
  I had lived ... read more »
  
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  - Birmingham
  - 23 Jan 2009 at 08:51
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  Lovely
  
  If you are a fan of this director - and Japanese cinema in general - then you will enjoy this. Not his best but still very beautiful, very charming.
  
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  - UK
  - 19 Jan 2009 at 17:19
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  Great Movie
  
  A great movie by a great director. Takeshi Kitano, gives us a moving road story between a man and a little boy. The relationship between the two is really well ... read more »
  
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  - Cambridge
  - 10 Jan 2009 at 20:46
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  Kitano does cute and funny!
  
  Well I expect if you're looking up this film you know what kind of films Kitano does, violent yakuza gangster and cop ones. Recently though he has produced ... read more »
  
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  - Stowmarket, England
  - 20 Sep 2004 at 10:54
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  Japanese Master
  
  It is the second time I have seen this film and I found it every bit as enchanting this time around as the last.
  
  Kitano has mastered his art and uses... read more »
  
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- - Merlin
  - London
  - 20 Dec 2005 at 14:17
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  An Unusual
  
  Bandy legs, a deadpan face animated only by bizarre facial ticks, pot belly... Who'd of thought 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano could possibly be the coolest ... read more »
  
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- - Andy Oliver
  - Colchester
  - 11 Dec 2005 at 18:45
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  Made me laugh
  
  I really loved this film. Its easy to watch, funny and heart warming. I don't watch enough films like this and considering the main actor has been in some... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 22 Jan 2007 at 18:15
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  Lazily entertaining
  
  As others on this page have commented, this isn't anything like the films which made Takeshi Kitano's name in the west. In Japan, of course, he's ... read more »
  
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- - Savage
  - 632 reviews
  - London, England
  - 22 Apr 2008 at 15:26
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  Beat it Kitano
  
  I didn't buy into this film at all. In fact it got increasingly irritating.
  
  Mainly cus Takeshi Kitano - the director - overacts the lead role of ... read more »
  
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  - Buckfastleigh
  - 30 Oct 2008 at 21:29
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  Poignant and moving and at times very funny
  
  A touching and poignant story of unlikely friendship. At the beginning of what looks like a lonely uneventful summer break a lonely child is accompanied by a ... read more »
  
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- - kimchikid
  - 1 review
  - beckenham
  - 28 Jan 2011 at 22:53
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  Sensational
  
  At turns funny then sad, this brilliant film lifts the spirits. Just fabulous and with a soundtrack that will stay with you long after the film has finished.
  
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- - Kevan Brighting
  - Birmingham
  - 11 Oct 2005 at 08:50
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  It's good but weird
  
  There is no story really.
  
  I liked it though for it was quite weird, in a Donnie Darko way. Nice soundtrack.
  
  The acting is good, ... read more »
  
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- - Lee Friend
  - London, UK.
  - 12 Oct 2005 at 13:17
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  Beat On Form
  
  Big fan of Beat and this is one film worth a look though the violence is not as common there are very good moments when you know it is there lingering i the ... read more »
  
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  - Huddersfield
  - 31 Oct 2005 at 12:01

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