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DVD ~ Masanobu Ando
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  • Actors: Masanobu Ando, Ken Kaneko, Leo Morimoto
  • Directors: Kitano Takeshi
  • Format: PAL
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Second Sight Films Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 11 May 2009
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001VIR82I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,060 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang. They manage to achieve prosperity, but their reckless nature inevitably returns and they soon learn the real world is a lot less forgiving then the schoolyard. A combination of violence, humour, and visual poetry from famed Japanese director Takeshi "Beat" Kitano (VIOLENT COP, KIKUJIRO).

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Kids return - or, Kitano returns after his accident, 23 Dec 2000
By D. De Gruijter (Leiden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids Return [VHS] [1997] (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.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Once again Kitano does it right., 26 Dec 2000
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This review is from: Kids Return [VHS] [1997] (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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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very moving, 30 Nov 2004
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This review is from: Kids Return [DVD] [1997] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
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. I can't recommend it strongly enough.
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