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Kikujiro

Kikujiro no natsu

1999

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki ...

7.4

14,291

Drama. Comedy Tokyo, the present. Masao, an only child, lives with his grandmother. His only friend leaves for his summer holiday. Finding a photograph of his mother with an address, Masao sets out to find her. Miki, a friend of his grandmother's, makes her husband, yakuza Kikujiro, accompany the child on his quest. Their first stop is the bike races where Kikujiro loses all his money, but Masao picks three winners. Kikujiro blows the winnings on an ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I like the director and his style, but the material finally defeats him. You can't smile when you keep feeling sorry for the kid--who is not, after all, in on the joke (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"The comic drama is refreshingly anti-sentimental but will break your heart anyway."	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"Shot and cut in the distinctive Kitano style, the film has great spontaneity. The comedy elements bring the author's two personae (...) closer together than ever before (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"A new and much gentler direction for Kitano, who appears to be mellowing with (finally). It may just be whimsy, but it's painted with a bittersweet brush (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"[It] displays many of the inventive visual touches that distinguished Kitano (...) but its treacly mix of emotional manipulation and klutzy comedy will make it hard to digest for most audiences."	NEU
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"The result is a heart-tugger made totally irresistible because of the combination of Kitano's wry, sly sense of humor and his rigorous detachment."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The film isn't just bad; it's a barely coherent, inert mess -- a heart-tugger for voidoids."	NEG

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