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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Two school-age chums, Shinji and Masaru, spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates, playing pranks, and sneaking to the movies. They decide to drop out and gain their fortunes in the outside world. Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local Yakuza gang. Over the years the two do well, but their undisciplined nature comes back to haunt them. ...Kids Return ( Kizzu ritân )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Kids Return is a nice episode in Kitano's oevre. Instead of the usual hardboiled (pitiable?) yakuza and police characters he now presents the story of two youths, best friends, who part their ways to pursue their own careers (professional boxing and Japanese mafia) and both fail to live up to it, resulting in their reunion years later.
Kids Return differs from Kitano's other top movies (Violent Cop, Sonatine, Hana-Bi) in it not being a violent downward spiral to suicide or death. Instead, the story brings hope to those who fail in life, however frail that hope may be.
Besides that, it is a nice portrait of the world of Japanese young adults, and the most important theme seems to be that the 'kids' get dragged to their dooms by others, i.e. they are turned into losers by already established losers. The young boxer being dogged by a bitter older boxer into screwing up his promising career; the young salesman being dogged by his collegue to leave their ungrateful employer and to start working as taxi drivers, resulting in mutual misery; the young misfit who is taken in as a yakuza (despite the advice by the self same boss not to become yakuza), resulting nearly in his death.
Of course, the soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi is (again) terrific, and it greatly adds to the atmosphere.
One drawback, however, are the many puns Kitano uses throughout the movie that just don't shine in the English translation. Especially when the stand-up comedians appear with their torrents of speech! But that is something we can neither blame Kitano nor the translator for, I'm afraid.
Format:DVD
I'm a big fan of Takeshi Kitano's work and had high hopes for 'Kids Return' especially as it's taken 14 years to get a region 2 DVD release. While it's great to see a previously unreleased Kitano film it is in reality a fairly average Japanese drama about two high school drop outs who join a boxing club which leads them taking two very different paths in life.
If you're a fan to Takeshi Kitano then you'll want to see it, though if your not a Kitano fan then it's probably worth giving a miss.
If you're a fan to Takeshi Kitano then you'll want to see it, though if your not a Kitano fan then it's probably worth giving a miss.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Kid's return is Takeshi Kitano's fifth movie. Born in Tokyo in 1947, Takeshi's movies are filled with childhood memories. Kids return is once again a masterpiece. Two friends go back to their school and talk about the past, when they first met. In the beginning, they are enemies but as the time goes by, they end up as best friends, and become bullies. Boxing is the element that has linked them but only one of them follows a boxing carrier while the other turns out to be a Yakuza. A very fine movie full of intense moments. If you are a Kitano fan, get it into your collection. I can promise that you won't regret it!
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Very moving
I love this film. It's very touching, despite containing quite a bit of violence. It makes me nostalgic about my teenage years, although I'm a girl. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2004
I know what its about, you see?
Beat Takeshi films always leave me thinking 'that was good but i wonder what it was Really about' well i worked out this one, i think. Read more
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