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	Kikujiro
		'Kikujiro' was to be a departure from his usual examinations of crime and proved to be a major success at film festivals around the world.
		Kikujiro proves himself an incapable carer when he wastes the money for the trip on his gambling addiction and offers little comfort for his innocent charge.
		Kikujiro himself is not the most pleasant of men, but reveals some hidden sides to his personality throughout the course as do many of the players that appear along the way.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/kikujiro.htm (651 words)

	Kikujiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kikujiro begins and ends on a bridge, as had Violent Cop, but here, the image is not of Kitano himself, but concentrates upon the other central character of the film, Masao.
		When Kikujiro and Masao finally reach the address of the boy's mother, Kikujiro investigates alone, and discovers the mother to have a husband and another child.
		Kikujiro is, in large part, a festive comedy, and its editing makes much of both Kitano's bandy-legged shuffle and of his blank face.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /film/journal/filmrev/kikujiro.htm (1270 words)

	Kikujiro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kikujiro is the official international title for 菊次郎の夏 (Kikujirō no Natsu, literally: "Kikujirō's summer"), a 1999 film starring, written, and directed by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano.
		Kikujiro tells the story of a young boy searching for his mother during his summer vacation.
		After Kikujiro gambles away all the money, the duo must improvise their transport across the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kikujiro (280 words)

	Sony Pictures Classics: Kikujiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tough guy Kikujiro is an unlikely candidate to take a sensitive 8-year-old boy Masac on a quest to find the mother he's never met.
		Kikujiro is about children's games, and how they make us see exactly what went wrong in our own lives.
		KIKUJIRO is likely to be one of the year 2000's most talked about specialized pictures.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/archive/2000/kikujiro.html (127 words)

	AsianWeek: A&E: ‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano’s Kikujiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kikujiro can’t afford to pay the bill, but the entertainment value of his loudmouth, brutish behavior seems to offer a kind of compensation.
		At the end of their journey, the duo encounter a surprise that is so devastating that Kikujiro suddenly develops a conscience, cuts the verbal abuse and gives Masao an “angel bell,” a good-luck token that he bullies out of the bikers.
		Kikujiro opens June 9 at the Clay Theatre in San Francisco, the Act I in Berkeley, the Towne in San Jose, the Aquarius in Palo Alto, and the Northgate in San Rafael.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_06_08/ae_kikujiro.html (913 words)

	Kikujiro Movie: Kikujiro DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kikujiro (Takeshi) is an immature man who has never had any serious responsibilities.
		Unfortunately, before they even leave town Kikujiro squanders all of their travelling money by gambling at the cycle races and as a result these two unlikely companions must hitch a series of rides on the open road.
		As Kikujiro and Masao trek along the Japanese countryside, they encounter strange characters and circumstances, leading to a series of misadventures.
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	Kikujiro
		Kikujiro isn’t above shaking down strangers for their petty cash, and the first thing he does once Masao is under his wing is to gamble away the boy’s bankroll at the races.
		After the aborted homecoming, Kikujiro and Masao take up with a band of motley wayfarers – a lanky trickster poet and a pair of dippy motorcycle bums – and the quintet camps out on a secluded beach.
		As Kikujiro, with a cruel tic pulling at his mouth and a rolling bowlegged walk, he’s a griffin-like fusion of Eastwood and Chaplin – a previously unthinkable combination.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Kikujiro.htm (843 words)

	Kikujiro
		Kikujiro is a very simple tale about Maseo (Yusuke Sekiguchi) a young boy who wants to travel a long distance to find his mother.
		Because Kikujiro blows all the money he’s given for the trip by gambling on bike racing and staying in a nice hotel, Kikujiro and Maseo must make most of their journey by hitchhiking.
		Kikujiro could have cut nearly a half an hour of dead time and it would have made for a much stronger product.
	www.filmnote.com /Film/K/Kikujiro.htm (359 words)

	Kikujiro
		Wallet thickened with his girlfriend's funds, Kikujiro drags the poor boy to the racetrack.
		Kikujiro walks across the sandy beach to a waiting Masao in one touching scene, but for an audience to watch a lead character walk 50 feet through the sand on a 100 foot wide shot - it's just asking too much.
		Kikujiro stares at us with his one eye blinking, we should hate him, we want to hate him, but instead he endears us even more than a small child searching for his mother.
	www.rossanthony.com /K/kikujiro.shtml (502 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Kikujiro (1999)
		In Kikujiro the farcical elements work because Kitano allows the humor to flow organically from the characters he has painstakingly created, using juxtaposition to highlight their idiosyncracies and contradictions.
		Through their personalities, the characters create the situations, rather than the other way around, as in the average American sitcom or romantic comedy, which usually use farcical routines to introduce new characters, who, by being associated with a specific kind of nutty behavior are then defined by it.
		Kikujiro is not so much a story as a series of vignettes, each tied loosely to Masao's search for his mother.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/k/kikujiro.htm (829 words)

	kikujiro
		Kikujiro's wife, probably to get rid of her loafer husband for awhile, decides to send him along with the boy as an adult protector, for which she gives him some money.
		Kikujiro calls the kid a brat and starts the trek with a gambling trip to the cycle races instead of to the beach as promised, where the undependable loudmouth blows the money and blames the kid for giving him the wrong numbers.
		Kikujiro rescues the kid in time, takes the pervert's money and warns the kid not to go off with strangers, which has to be laughable advice since he's a stranger to the kid.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/kikujiro.htm (992 words)

	Dual Lens - Kikujiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kikujiro, in comparison, keeps the pain to a minimum and allows that redemption is available to all of us, even Kitano, who plays Kikujiro.
		Kikujiro introduces another previously anathema subject—children—with the young boy Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) who Kitano takes on a trip from the city to the beach, visiting some betting establishments and prostitutes along the way.
		Kikujiro is the first movie in which those powers have been put to such effective use, restoring the fantasy life of its main characters.
	www.duallens.com /index.asp?reviewId=51603 (819 words)

	Kikujiro
		Wrapping up his director's statement regarding his new film, Kikujiro, Takeshi Kitano iterates that "I hope to continue upsetting people's expectations in a positive way." The Japanese writer/director who plays the title role wants to show industry members and viewers across the world that he is more than a flashy director of Yakuza gangster cinema.
		Essentially, Kikujiro works somewhat in its individual segments of unforeseen jokes, with a semi dark droll manner punctuating its episodes that sometimes have a mean streak.
		How the interludes play out aren't easily forecasted as Kikujiro, who doesn't mention his name to Masao until the last shot, is a mischievous clown whether in a hotel pool or as a blind man trying to get a ride.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/kikujiro.html (575 words)

	Kikujiro (2000): Reviews
		Kikujiro (Takeshi), a brash, loudmouthed and irresponsible adult, agrees to accompany him on his quest.
		Appears to be a complete about-face for Kitano, and yet it's unmistakably his, both stylistically (the film is gorgeous to look at) and thematically.
		With a fantastic soundtrack behind it, Kikujiro is an excellent movie to watch when you need to feel good.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/kikujiro (856 words)

	'Kikujiro'
		Takeshi Kitano and Beat Takeshi, the director and star respectively of the Japanese film "Kikujiro," are the same person.
		So a friend of his grandmother tells her hapless husband, Kikujiro, to accompany the boy.
		Kikujiro is an irresponsible lout, a bully who blames others for his own misfortunes and can never acknowledge his shortcomings.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20000715kikujiro5.asp (517 words)

	Kikujiro . Austin Chronicle . 07-03-00
		Kikujiro is a petty hustler and a loudmouth, whose wife seems willing to trade him away in order to gain a little window of peace and quiet.
		Kikujiro, however, marks a departure in style for Kitano, whose films often deal with cops and the violent underworld.
		Not only is Kikujiro sweet and funny, it is, no doubt, Kitano's experimental "art film." The movie is loaded with showy, scene-stealing shots.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/k/kikujiro1.html (522 words)

	Animefringe: Features: Kikujiro no Natsu
		Along the way, Kitano plays Kikujiro with his characteristic gusto: he steals cabs and lunches, yells at people, and generally behaves like a gruff old fogey, while still revealing how much he comes to care for Masao.
		When Kikujiro notices he's lost his traveling companion he sets out to look for him, only to find the boy nearly being molested by a pervert.
		All the games are rigged and Kikujiro walks around the place taking prizes as if he were still a Yakuza; the thugs running the carnival, however, seem to think differently and show Kikujiro he's not a boss anymore.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/2003/11/feature/03/index.php3 (778 words)

	[KFCC] Kikujiro Review
		Kikujiro is good in turns of humor yet this is sustained with the supporting characters that show up through out the film and the accompanying sound/visual effects done with the editing of these scenes.
		Kikujiro is quite different from what you would expect from the movies of this genre, and Kitano for that matter.
		He took a chance and won greatly by showing his softer side for the camera and not once was it lame, cheesy, or even forced.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/comedy/kikujiro/kikujiro.html (607 words)

	Amazon.com: Kikujiro: DVD: Yuuko Daike,Great Gidayu,Fumie Hosokawa,Rakkyo Ide,Makoto Inamiya,Kayoko Kishimoto,Beat ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Their excursion to the cycle races is the first of a series of adventures for the unlikely pair which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and odd ball characters to meet along the way.
		Kikujiro is a very serene movie with excellent direction and beautiful cinematography.
		When Kikujiro is waiting at the bus station, he has the Hawaiian red shirt; however when he pretends to be blind, his shirt changes back to the white one he had before the hotel.
	www.amazon.com /Kikujiro-Yuuko-Daike/dp/B00004Z1FE (2193 words)

	Kikujiro - Movie Review
		The film is "Kikujiro." The kid is Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi), a timid boy who was abandoned as a baby and has lived his whole life with his grandmother.
		Kikujiro (Kitano) is a lousy choice for the job since he's uncouth, uninterested, self-centered, a habitual gambler and a cheat who soon sees them broke and sleeping in bus stops because he's blown their traveling money at the races.
		As a writer and director, Kitano blinds himself these inescapable problems with his plot and opts instead for frosting "Kikujiro" with an odd and precarious layer of sweetness and cheerfulness, portrayed mostly through a child-like, piano recital soundtrack and Masao's surreal fantasies and dreams.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/kikujiro_1 (624 words)

	Kikujiro
		What's left of his rebellion is reduced to blowing his expenses in a series of ill judged bets at a cycling track, accompanied by some comic anti-social behaviour.
		Kikujiro is eventually forced to try and make the journey by any free means he can.
		But in Kikujiro we are presented with the sight of male decline and a change from violent reaction into the unexpected comedy of the road.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/10/kikujiro.html (948 words)

	Takeshi Kitano's - Kikujiro - Kikujirô no natsu DVD Review Takeshi Kitano Kikujiro Kikujirô no natsu DVD Review ...
		Celebrating the success of “Hana-bi”, by which Kitano announced himself to be a master, the world tour brought him to Rotterdam, where Tony Rayns during the talk show asked him about his next project.
		When all his friends go away for the summer, he is all alone all day, so he decides to go visit his mother, whom he never has seen, as she moved away to get a job to support Masao.
		Like no other Kitano film, “Kikujiro” is all about moving on (“the angel trilogy”) and as such it marks the end of the three films about making things right he made after recovering from his accident.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare5/kikujiro.htm (865 words)

	Kikujiro: Tapestries
		In stark contrast to Masao's silence, then, his quite denigration into a form of despair, is the character Kikujiro played by Takeshi himself - the loudmouth troublemaking irresponsible lout who, in a perverse turn of logic, is entrusted to escort Masao to his unseen Mother.
		The irony remains that Kikujiro, despite all this, is still the primary source of humor in a film that is very funny.
		The film really began to open up to me. There is a game that Masao and Kikujiro's gang play towards the end of the film, in which people are only allowed to move while an other is counting down with their back turned before turning around again.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/10/kikujirotap.html (1528 words)

	Film Festival : Cannes 99
		Now, for his eighth film, Kikujiro - named after his father, although the character is not based on him - Kitano has embarked on another departure.
		Concerned for the boy's safety, his grandmother's friend volunteers her husband Kikujiro (Kitano himself) to accompany the boy on his quest.
		Western viewers may be surprised at the uncharacteristically gentle nature of Kikujiro, but this wasn't a conscious move on the director's part.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes99/html/seloff22.htm (623 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Kikujiro
		Gentle, observational, but punchy and highly amusing,"Kikujiro" is about a lonely nine-year-old boy, Masao, whom we first encounter sitting alone in his grandmother's house (she is out working), brooding over the emptiness of his life.
		His loneliness is emphasised via a wide shot of Masao on a football pitch, kicking a ball around, having forgotten that football practice had been cancelled for the summer.
		Yet "Kikujiro" is not some joyless work of scorching introspection but an upbeat romp which is often funny in the extreme: "Kikujiro" is rude to the point of eccentricity, and most of the on-the-road encounters are wacky but (because they are rooted in his well-written character) are never forced.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/06/29/kikujiro_review.shtml (399 words)

	Kikujiro (Kikujiro no natsu) (Japan, 1999) . Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The genre Kitano refers to is the old one about a kid bonding with an adult.
		Grandma has a friend whose middle-aged husband Kikujiro is a fellow who strikes rough poses, is gruff, insulting and aggressive, but probably has a heart of deeply hidden gold.
		The film is, depending on your reactions, slow, leisurely, with an oriental tempo (whatever that is), sweet, full of chutzpah (amply provided by Kikujiro), improbable, absurd but nice, absurd and irritating, charming but predictable, charming and full of surprises, unreal, surreal, silly, dull, quietly exciting and inventive, and so on...
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/kikujiro.htm (542 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Kikujiro (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After Kikujiro fails miserably in the swimming pool, he joins Masao in violating several rules of the hotel in succession.
		Kikujiro emits a light-hearted tone that could cause stern viewers to dismiss it as shallow or a waste of time.
		Masao and Kikujiro develop a remarkable relationship that wonderfully combines with Kitano's elegant directing style.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=775 (1297 words)

	The DVD Journal: Kikujiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kitano's Kikujiro from 1999 is consistent with his world view and style.
		Kikujiro is the kind of offbeat film that grows in value to the sensitive viewer who has patience for Japanese humor, which can seem inexplicable to Western eyes.
		The episodic sequence at the campsite, for example, may tax the patience of non-fans.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/k/kikujiro.shtml (753 words)

	Kikujiro
		Originally titled Kikujiro no natsu (which I believe translates to Kikujiro’s Summer Vacation), Kikujiro is a sweet, touching, and occasionally sad film about a boy named Masao and his journey to find his real mother.
		Kikujiro is perhaps the most beautiful of all, only because the subject matter is so much lighter than many of his previous films.
		Kikujiro is a departure from his normal fare, but it’s still powerful and touching enough to please even the fans who only like his hardcore Yakuza films.
	members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10002412.html (1459 words)

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