Kayoko Kishimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takeshi Kitano
Kikujiro, a brash, loud-mouthed swindler, teams up with a sensitive nine-year-old boy in search of the boy's estranged mother. While Kikujiro tries to teach the boy life lessons, he is suddenly confro...( read more
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Directed by: Kayoko Kishimoto, Takeshi Kitano, Yuko Daike, Yusuke Sekiguchi
Release Date: May 26, 2000
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2000
Stats: 662 reviews
Bad tempered small-time criminal Takeshi Kitano is "volunteered" to take a young boy to meet the mother he has never known, and after blowing all their money at the track they resort to hitch-hiking meeting the inevitable mix of oddballs along the way. Anyone familiar with the fi...( read more)
Kitano puts the violence to one side for a change and focuses on the good in all people. Kikujiro is beautiful 'Road movie' with all the typical kitano signatures (Games on the Beach etc) and humour. Towards the end you can't help but feel that maybe Beat hasn't been laid to rest...( read more)
To me this film by Takeshi Kitano was just ok, some nice camerawork, but overall not alot going on here. Some scenes seemed to take forever. Brutally slow pacing. Frankly I think it has been overrated. The little boy is cute though. Thumbs down.
A more gentle Kitano, with gentle standing for plenty of very dark gags towards the kid. In my case, i loved to see Kitano redoing the usual cliches in this type of movies with his ironic and ambigous touch. So, it goes without saying this might not click with everyone.
If you know Kitano;s previous movies, you will be surprised to see Kikujiro, because it shows a new face of him, because he is known ...( read more)
A charming and heartwarming Kitano story, with an elegant direction and a hypnotizingly slow pace. The heartwarming factor will not disappoint.
78/100
seems the ending is sad, but i do love the intro song - Summer by Joe Hisaishi
I always had high expectations for Kitano's movies but I never expected this one to be such a great movie, Truly refreshing
You can't smile when you keep feeling sorry for the kid--who is not, after all, in on the joke. full review
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