Atsuki Ueda, Hatsuo Yamaya, Ken Kaneko
Takeshi Kitano's humorous, offbeat, and ironic tale of lost adolescence and survival. Masaru and Shinji are two delinquent teenage slackers who cut classes, play pranks on their teachers and extort mo...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 12, 2000
Stats: 126 reviews
For some reason i keep forgeting that i even own this movie, when it's such a great film for all the right reasons. A "coming of age" story without all the usual cliches and bullshit of those type of movies. The fear anyone has to the "adult life", to become just what everyone to...( read more)
Takeshi Kitano captures, perfectly, that youthful fear of the unknown. Perhaps a fear that never truly goes away. This is the tale of adolescents that are conditioned to aim towards something from an early age, so early in fact, that the desire to change course is often ignored. ...( read more)
This was the first Kitano film I saw. I was taken by its honest and slightly offbeat approach. Who would have thought that he would eventually emerge as one of the finest Japanese filmmakers working today?
2 school boy layabouts get into boxing, and thats where friendship goes seperate ways, a well acted drama, some nice moments,and acting from the two leads
A film that some parents should watch. Children in schools are absolutely unpredictable!
2 teenage dropouts pressured into a violent world of professional fighting and yakuza. Makes you think.
In this movie you can find the fun,the action,the reflection. 2 kids attend the same school. After some years they take different paths,but the destiny will make them meet again. A sharp movie about the theme of Friendship
A film about the obsession of becoming the number one, the history of two friends suffering a drastic change in his lives.
And after the storm, maybe only the friendship can health the old wounds.
to say this is my least favorite kitano movie is like saying i prefer diamonds to rubys. it's still great. the premise was a bit weak, and yet, that actually made it seem more realistic. only real complaint is the editing. some of it was sloppy. not odd choices, but just plain sl...( read more)
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