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Takeshi Kitano is without a doubt one of the greatest living film directors. He got his start as a film director with the action film Violent Cop. Interestingly, he sort of stumbled into this job. He was hired to play a supporting role, when the director dropped out. Kitano took the reins of the project and reworked the comedic script into a much darker, more sombre film. He upped his own role to lead and then turned the story into something more akin to Dirty Harry, where it had previously been more along the lines of Lethal Weapon and other comedic action flicks. Kikujiro is worlds away from Violent Cop, and certainly one of the must download internet movies if you want to see what Takeshi Kitano is really all about.
Kikujiro is really something different, or was at the time, for Kitano. He had generally been creating violent gangster films about the Yakuza. He first moved away from that genre with a film about surfers. When asked why his new movie had no yakuza in it, he said "Well you know yakuza have to chop off their fingers on their left hand when they disobey orders. And surfers have to paddle their boards out to sea. If a yakuza tried to surf, he would only paddle in circles." This sense of humor defines all of his work, including the sentimental, touching tale told in Kikujiro.
Kitano has led an interesting career. Before becoming a film maker, he went by the name of Beat Takeshi as part of a comedy duo called The Two Beats. That was another career he stumbled into. He had been an emcee at a night club when the comedian they'd hired for the night got sick, and he had to take the microphone and give an on the spot comedy routine. People loved him, and he became an overnight sensation in Japan.
Eventually he became a popular TV show host, and even got a chance to make his own video game with Takeshi's Challenge. This game was really more of a torture device than anything, with ridiculous challenges such as demanding that the player hit a button thousands of times to progress, or sing into a microphone plugged into the Nintendo for an hour straight. The game was made, as the title screen declares, by "a man who hates video games." Well, the game certainly hates the player.
Kitano's odd sense of humor comes through very well in this movie. Kitano plays Kikujiro, an old man who fits the lovable loser archetype. He escorts a young boy across Japan to meet his estranged mother. He winds up blowing all their money at the tracks, thinking the kid is some kind of psychic after predicting three race winners in a row.
He winds up begging for food, and giving the boy half of it before eating his own half out of sight of the child. This way it looks like he's going without for the child's sake, and it's very touching that he would lie to earn the boy's love and respect, if a little unethical.
The movie really is sweet and touching, particularly a dream sequence later on where the boy reflects upon games he has played with Kikujiro and their friends. The two create their own family with the two of them and the goofy characters they meet on their travels.
Sonatine is the Kitano film that is most well known in the US, but Kikujiro is without a doubt one of his very best.
Kikujiro is really something different, or was at the time, for Kitano. He had generally been creating violent gangster films about the Yakuza. He first moved away from that genre with a film about surfers. When asked why his new movie had no yakuza in it, he said "Well you know yakuza have to chop off their fingers on their left hand when they disobey orders. And surfers have to paddle their boards out to sea. If a yakuza tried to surf, he would only paddle in circles." This sense of humor defines all of his work, including the sentimental, touching tale told in Kikujiro.
Kitano has led an interesting career. Before becoming a film maker, he went by the name of Beat Takeshi as part of a comedy duo called The Two Beats. That was another career he stumbled into. He had been an emcee at a night club when the comedian they'd hired for the night got sick, and he had to take the microphone and give an on the spot comedy routine. People loved him, and he became an overnight sensation in Japan.
Eventually he became a popular TV show host, and even got a chance to make his own video game with Takeshi's Challenge. This game was really more of a torture device than anything, with ridiculous challenges such as demanding that the player hit a button thousands of times to progress, or sing into a microphone plugged into the Nintendo for an hour straight. The game was made, as the title screen declares, by "a man who hates video games." Well, the game certainly hates the player.
Kitano's odd sense of humor comes through very well in this movie. Kitano plays Kikujiro, an old man who fits the lovable loser archetype. He escorts a young boy across Japan to meet his estranged mother. He winds up blowing all their money at the tracks, thinking the kid is some kind of psychic after predicting three race winners in a row.
He winds up begging for food, and giving the boy half of it before eating his own half out of sight of the child. This way it looks like he's going without for the child's sake, and it's very touching that he would lie to earn the boy's love and respect, if a little unethical.
The movie really is sweet and touching, particularly a dream sequence later on where the boy reflects upon games he has played with Kikujiro and their friends. The two create their own family with the two of them and the goofy characters they meet on their travels.
Sonatine is the Kitano film that is most well known in the US, but Kikujiro is without a doubt one of his very best.
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