The critically-acclaimed 1999 Japanese comedy film “Kikujiro” is set to make its Chinese mainland debut later this summer though the release date is yet to be announced.



A quiet masterpiece that delights and affects long after its revels have ended.



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January 16, 2003 Warm and funny, and even sad at parts, Kikujiro is just a simple, lighthearted movie with absolutley beautiful music.

Copyright © Fandango. KIKUJIRO is a strange Japanese drama about a gloomy little schoolboy living with his grandmother in Tokyo. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances Unlike "The two of them are essentially broke for most of the movie, after Mister trusts the kid's ability to pick the winners at a bicycle race track.
(His efforts produce one puncture, which results in a great sight gag.)



Neither the movie nor the trip taken ends up changing the world, but both make an impression worth noticing.

March 23, 2001 Japanese audiences would know he is a movie tough guy (Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry is our equivalent), and so they'd get the joke that he seems ineffectual and clueless. All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer
April 9, 2005 January 13, 2004 In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Western audiences, looking at the material with less of the context, are likely to find some scenes a little creepy, even though the cheerful music keeps trying to take the edge off.

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The gangster is assigned to take the kid to find the mother, and that's the set-up for "Kikujiro," which is a lot of things, although one of them is not a sweet comedy about a gangster and a kid.Kikujiro, known only as "Mister" to the little boy, is played by Kitano as a man who is willing to seem a clown, but keeps his thoughts to himself. And honestly … April 5, 2003 November 21, 2003



Straying away from his usual Yazuka films, Takeshi Kitano made this charming, Wizard of Oz insipired road movie, Kikujiro.