Takeshi Kitano arrived on the filmmaking scene in Japan with his film “Violent Cop”. He had been an actor and a comedian and… Really just a general purpose renaissance man up until that point. He was cast in the comedy action film Violent Cop as a supporting character, but when the director dropped out, he took the reins of the film as the new director and rewrote the entire script into a sort of Dirty Harry story about a sociopath detective who will literally stop at nothing to kill the bad guy. Kikujiro is a much different film than that one, and certainly belongs on your must download internet movies queue.

Kikujiro is really a step outside of the norm for Kitano. It’s sweet, touching and sentimental, where his movies are typically much more cold and hard, defined by their violent content. He first stepped outside of this world with a film about surfers, which led to the question “Why no Yakuza in this one?” His answer was that, since surfers have to paddle their boards out to sea, and yakuza have to remove fingers in penance for sins against their brotherhood, many yakuza have five fingers on one hand and three on the other, so they would only paddle in circles out in the ocean and never get anywhere! That’s Kitano’s sense of humor for you, and it’s definitely on display in Kikujiro.

Kitano’s career has had a lot of twists and turns. He began as an emcee of a nightclub. When the comedian there got sick, he took over as comic for the night, and he was a huge star on the comedy scene for a number of years.

He went on to become a popular TV host, and this got him another job as a video game designer. He created a game called Takeshi’s Challenge for the NES. The game began with a title card reading “WARNING: This game was created by a man who hates video games.” We don’t know if he hates video games, but this game hated the player. It included challenges such as holding a single button for several hours straight, a horizontal scrolling shooting game where you cannot hit the up button, so you can only dodge enemies by moving down, and a last boss who took more than one hundred thousand hits to kill.

Kitano’s humor really is odd, and this film carries it on. The film follows Kikujiro, an old man, a lovable loser type, who escorts a young boy across Japan to go and meet his estranged mother. The man blows all their money on gambling, believing that the boy is psychic after predicting the winning horses in a three race lucky streak.

Later, Kitano is forced to beg for food for himself and the boy. He gets two sandwiches, hides one, and tells the boy “You eat, I don’t need food right now”. He then hides around the corner to eat his own sandwich. It’s a funny scene, showing that he may be a lovable loser, but he really wants the child’s respect and isn’t afraid of lying to get it!

The movie is, again, very sweet. Watching the old man and the young boy bond is moving and touching, and within one another, the two find their own definition of the word family.

It is, certainly, one of Kitano’s best. Sonatine is the film he’s really known for in the US, but Kikujiro is one of his many crowning achievements.

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